Chamath Palihapitiya

Investor

1976-09-03

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist and technology executive known for early roles at Facebook and for founding Social Capital. He has been active in startup investing, public markets commentary, and SPAC sponsorship. His work focuses on technology-driven businesses and long-term investing themes.

Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.
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I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.
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Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.
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We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.
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Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them.
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