San Francisco Bay Area
Chamath Palihapitiya is the founder of Social Capital, an organization that makes bets on potentially transformational ideas, technology, and people. Social Capital supports entrepreneurship at all stages in diverse markets including energy transition, space, healthcare and consumer. Prior to founding Social Capital, Chamath was an early member of Facebook's senior executive team and led the development and launch of new platforms that drove the company's global growth. Prior to Facebook, Chamath held roles at The Mayfield Fund, AOL, and Winamp. Chamath was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Canada, and graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and growing Facebook adoption throughout the world. Also responsible for overseeing our mobile efforts.
Original exec in charge of FB Platform as well as launching and managing monetization efforts including online advertising channel.
Focused on investing primarily in Consumer Internet, Media and Advertising opportunities. Secondary focus on Games and Mobile.
Led resurgence of two of the Internet' most visible and popular brands. Revamped entire brand, product and value proposition of AIM and closed many significant, high profile transactions. Oversaw ICQ team in Israel.
Responsible for Product and Premium Services for multiple entertainment categories including Games, Music, Movies, Television, Ticketing and Sports.