Founder Profile
Stephen Cohen
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Stephen Cohen?
Stephen Cohen is a founder of Palantir Technologies Inc., which was founded in 2003 with Peter Thiel, Alexander Karp, Joe Lonsdale and Nathan Gettings.
- Company founded
- Palantir Technologies Inc.
- Founded
- 2003
- Co-founders
- Peter Thiel, Alexander Karp, Joe Lonsdale and Nathan Gettings
Background
Stephen Cohen studied computer science at Stanford before co-founding Palantir.
Founding Story
Stephen Cohen co-founded Palantir in 2003 as a Stanford computer science student and helped build its early engineering culture and software architecture. He serves as Palantir's President and a director, and he is one of the three holders of Class F founder shares, along with Karp and Thiel.
Stephen Cohen was born in 1982 in California.
Stephen Andrew Cohen was born on September 30, 1982. He is credited with building the first Palantir prototype in eight weeks and has interviewed more than 4,500 job candidates for the company. Before Palantir he worked with Peter Thiel at Clarium Capital.