Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian venture capitalist
Chamath Palihapitiya
@Venture Capitalists, Family and Facts
Sep 3, 1975
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: September 3, 1975
- Nationality: Sri Lankan
- Famous: Venture Capitalists, Miscellaneous
- Universities:
- University of Waterloo
- Birth Place: Sri Lanka
- Gender: Male
- Net Worth: 1 billion dollars as of April,2017
Chamath Palihapitiya born at
Sri Lanka
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Birth Place
Chamath Palihapitiya is currently married to Brigette Lau.
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Personal Life
Having lived in Sri Lanka, Canada, and the U.S. he attributes his outlook equally to his upbringing in all the three countries.
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Personal Life
Chamath is a very family-oriented person and loves spending time with his family and friends.
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Personal Life
Chamath Palihapitiya was born on September 3, 1975 in Sri Lanka. His family migrated to Canada when he was just six.
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Childhood & Early Life
In 1999, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
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Childhood & Early Life
Following his graduation, Chamath worked at an investment bank ‘BMO Nesbitt Burns’ as a trader. After working there for a year, he moved to California in 2000.
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Childhood & Early Life
Chamath began to work at AOL and became Vice President and General Manager of AIM and ICQ at AOL in 2004.
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Career
In 2005, he left his position at AOL to work at Facebook. His job initially aimed at increasing the user base of Facebook.
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Career
He was a member of Facebook’s Senior Management Team and played a major role in the expansion and technological development of Facebook.
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Career
Prior to Facebook, he had worked in prominent positions in Mayfield Fund, Winamp, and Spinner.com.
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While working at Facebook, Chamath started investing in small companies including Palantir, Pure Storage, Playdom, which was bought by the Walt Disney Company and Bumtop which was later bought by Google.
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Career
During his tenure at Facebook, the user base increased from 50 million to 700 million.
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Major Works
In several interviews, he has openly criticized the lack of diversity in the venture capital business. He wrote a piece on the need to accept diversity in capital firms and the importance of diverse experiences to broaden one’s vision.
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In 2015, Chamath’s firm, Social Capital, raised an amount of 500 million dollars in their capital fund venture.
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He has spoken against the U.S. Government calling it out as completely useless. This led many people to criticize him and question the purpose of private business ventures altogether.
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He has also spoken on Gender gap in various sectors and has publicly criticized Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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Major Works