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Chamath Palihapitiya is the Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a technology
investment company, and Co-founder and CEO of 8090, an AI-enabled software
engineering company. Social Capital has incubated and invested in groundbreaking
companies across sectors, including healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate change, and space exploration. Some of Social Capital’s notable investments include Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Slack (acquired by Salesforce), Swarm Technologies (acquired by SpaceX), Digital Currency Group, Groq (acquired by NVIDIA), MrBeast, Palmetto, and 8090.
Prior to Social Capital, Chamath served as a senior executive at Facebook, where he
was the leader of the company’s Growth, Mobile, and Platform teams.
Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Canada, Chamath now resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and five children. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Waterloo.
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