"My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there."
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Chamath Palihapitiya, a visionary entrepreneur and investor, was born on September 8, 1976, in Sri Lanka before immigrating to Canada. With a background in engineering and business, he first gained prominence as an executive at Facebook, where he played a crucial role in growing the platform's user base. Later, he founded Social Capital, a venture capital firm aimed at addressing societal challenges through technology. Palihapitiya's innovative approach to investment and his advocacy for social impact has solidified his legacy as a forward-thinking leader in Silicon Valley.
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"I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience."
Chamath Palihapitiya"One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money."
Chamath Palihapitiya
"We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it."
Chamath Palihapitiya