Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder & CEO, Social Capital

Chamath Palihapitiya founded and runs Social Capital, now a family office investing his own money, and co-hosts the All-In podcast. He has backed Groq and sponsored a string of SPACs, the latest launched in September 2025.

Net worth: ~$1B (est.); Estimate

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Amplifying market sentiment to a mass following; venture investor and SPAC-era figurehead.

Worth knowing

Before Facebook he became AOL's youngest vice president and ran its instant messaging business.
Social Capital's 2024 letter warned that Chinese advances in large language models were America's "Sputnik moment."
Two of his SPACs, Social Capital Hedosophia IV and VI, liquidated in September 2022 after failing to find merger targets.
He has held a minority stake in the Golden State Warriors.

Age: 50
Based: Palo Alto, CA
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1976, Sri Lanka

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