Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist, engineer and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. He was an early senior executive at Facebook, joining the company in 2007 and leaving in 2011. He has three World Series of Poker and two World Poker Tour cashes for a total of USD 175,801.
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Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist, engineer and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. He was an early senior executive at Facebook, joining the company in 2007 and leaving in 2011. He is a minority stakeholder and board member of the Golden State Warriors. In 2020, he helped take Virgin Galactic public. He has three World Series of Poker and two World Poker Tour cashes for a total of USD 175,801. He currently lives in California with his girlfriend Nathalie Dompe, an italian pharmaceutical heiress and model. He filed for divorce from his wife, Brigette Lau, in 2018, and the couple have a daughter, Lola, who was born in 1998. Palihpitiya was listed as one of the Founders of the lobbying group FWD.
us. He received weekly calls from people who wanted him to stop lobbying for immigration reform, improving education, and enabling technological innovation in the U.S. He also received a weekly call from people wanting him to quit lobbying for the group. In October 2015, he and Social Capital worked with the technology industry publication The Information to publish a report on diversity in venture capital. The study found that 92% of senior investment teams at top-tier venture firms are male and 78% are white. He wrote an op-ed calling for a ‘wake-up call’ among venture capital firms that would’recapture our potential and open doors’
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