Chamath Palihapitiya, a Canadian-born entrepreneur and venture capitalist from Sri Lanka, has a net worth of $1 billion.
Chamath Palihapitiya, who founded and leads Social Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, is a well-known personality.
He held the position of the youngest Vice President in AOL’s past.
Instant Messenger was managed by him at AOL.
In 2005, he became a member of Facebook when the social network was just a year old.
He held a senior executive position at Facebook between 2007 and 2011.
Chamath initiated his own fund, The Social+Capital Partnership, which was later renamed Social Capital, after leaving Facebook in 2011.
Social Capital’s assets now exceed $1 billion in value.
Social Capital was the primary investor in the 2015 Slack Technologies funding round.
Palantir, Paydom (which was bought by The Walt Disney Company), Bumptop (which was bought by Google), and Pure Storage all had significant investments. Palihapitiya is a co-host of a well-known technology podcast called “All In.”