Early Life and Education
Stephen Cohen was born on September 30, 1982. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. He graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Science, focusing on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. During his time at Stanford, Cohen conducted research with Professor Andrew Ng, the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Rise to Success
Cohen is best known as the co-founder and president of Palantir Technologies. He is credited with creating the initial prototype of Palantir in eight weeks. Since then, he has interviewed over 4,500 candidates and continues to be actively involved in Palantir. Prior to Palantir, Cohen worked with Peter Thiel at Clarium Capital. He also served as an advisor to BackType before its acquisition by Twitter in 2011. Cohen sold shares in Palantir in 2020, 2025, generating tens of millions of dollars in proceeds.
Key Business Strategies
As president, Cohen has likely been integral to Palantir's strategy of providing a platform for analyzing, integrating, and visualizing data for governments and businesses. This platform has been used to support various critical functions.
Philanthropy
Information on Cohen's specific philanthropic activities is not readily available in the search results.