Chamath Palihapitiya

What to know about Chamath Palihapitiya taking Clover Health public in a surprise merger

The Social Capital CEO is using a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, to quickly help health insurer Clover Health go public.

Here’s your chance to make money on space travel: Virgin Galactic blasts off on the NYSE

The first publicly traded private spaceflight company’s stock price is blasting out of this world. Then, before the closing bell, the stock fell back down to earth.

Social Capital’s Chamath Palihap­itiya Wants To Fix Capitalism

The former Facebook exec is betting his VC firm can change the way Silicon Valley picks and nurtures winning ideas.

Former Facebook exec: I didn’t mean social networking is all bad

Former Facebook exec: Social media is ripping apart society

Facebook’s former vice president for user growth Chamath Palihapitiya recently gave a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that’ll probably make you think twice about your social media use (via the Verge). The entire talk is well worth a watch, but some of his most prominent remarks included: That he feels “tremendous guilt” … Continue reading “Former Facebook exec: Social media is ripping apart society”