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Chamath Palihapitiya founded Social Capital to invest in and build technology businesses, and co-founded 8090, where he serves as CEO. He previously helped lead Facebook’s global growth after earlier roles at Mayfield, AOL and Winamp.
Chamath Palihapitiya founded Social Capital to invest in and build technology businesses, and co-founded 8090, where he serves as CEO. He previously helped lead Facebook’s global growth after earlier roles at Mayfield, AOL and Winamp.
Career
Chamath Palihapitiya holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering (1999) from University of Waterloo.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital from 2011 to PresentFounded Social Capital in 2011. Invests in and builds technology businesses through its venture funds and proprietary capital strategy.8Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at 8090 until PresentLeads the company behind Software Factory, an AI-native platform for enterprise software development.
ACohost at All-In until PresentCohosts the All-In podcast with Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg, discussing business, technology and society.
VGChairman of the Board at Virgin Galactic from 2019 to 2022-02Served as the public company’s first chairman from its 2019 listing until February 2022.
Board Director at Slack until 2019Served on Slack’s board and advised its leadership as the company expanded globally.
Vice President, User Growth, Mobile and International at Meta until 2011Served on Facebook's senior executive team and led platforms supporting global user growth.
Principal at Mayfield until 2007Invested in consumer internet companies before joining Facebook.
Vice President and General Manager, AIM and ICQ at AOL until 2005-12Led AOL’s AIM and ICQ messaging businesses after earlier product and business-operations roles.Investing Announcements
Cosigns Received
Stewart ButterfieldCo-founder of Slack and Flickr; startup investor
a deep analytical thinker and keen strategist who is full of passion.
Jeremy LiewVenture Partner at Lightspeed and Board Member
At AOL he was a tireless advocate for the user experience.
