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Chamath Palihapitiya

22 statements across 11 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 5, 2016 by Dhananja Jayalath · said 129 times in 47 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (76), Jason Lemkin (11), Rory O'Driscoll (4), Mamoon Hamid (4), Kevin Hartz (4), Jason Calacanis (4), Andy Johns (4), Tony Fadell (2)

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Everything said about Chamath Palihapitiya, oldest first

Aug 5, 2016
Disclosure
Athos secured seed investment from Chamath Palihapitiya within three hours of meeting
“We got here. I think we had a seed deal about three hours afterwards.”
Dhananja Jayalath Aug 5, 2016 ▶ 6:22 20VC: Turning Down Apple & Getting Funded By Chamath @ Social Capital with Dhananja Jayalath, Co-Founder & CEO @ Athos
Jul 13, 2020
Insight
Palihapitiya: Human integrity compounds infinitely over time, whereas capability decays
“Integrity really does compound infinitely. And capability always decays”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 15:17 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2025
Palihapitiya predicts venture capital returns will decay to single-digit IRRs globally
“The thing that I think people need to realize is as that happens, returns will decay. And it happens in every market when you expand. So real estate used to generate 30% IRRs. Now they generate high single digit IRRs. But the asset class and the category is a …”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 47:00 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020
Prediction Held up
Palihapitiya predicts social networks will fragment by political stance
“I think what you're going to see is a distribution of outcomes where you will have more left-leaning sites, more right-leaning sites, and more centrist organizations, and they will reflect their moral and ethical view into the product and the business decision…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 11:12 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Palihapitiya operated Social Capital on a budget-based fee model
“I ran my fund as budget based. I never ran it as a flat fee. Now, I ended up using the two percent because I had many, many tens of people. I had data scientists, we had HR, we had PR, we had all these outsourced resources, all those things consumed capital. B…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 48:24 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2023
Palihapitiya predicts Facebook will acquire politically segmented platforms
“So I suspect what happens at Facebook specifically is you'll have certain properties that are much more right-leaning or libertarian, if you will, and other properties that are much more left-leaning. And I think that that's probably how for them to maintain m…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 12:14 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020
Insight
Palihapitiya: When deploying $100M+, investors should be predisposed to inaction
“When I'm talking about investing philosophy, Hundreds of millions to a billion dollars plus. I tell myself that I have to be completely predisposed to inaction. And so I forced myself to do nothing, Harry. And the bigger the check, the longer I need to wait, a…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 20:10 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 negative
Opinion
Palihapitiya calls early-stage startup growth forecasting fake work
“I think the high quality investors also understand the fragility of these kinds of things. And so as a result, don't demand this kind of fake work.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 8:56 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Palihapitiya designed Social Capital to combine Berkshire, Koch, and Red Cross
“I wanted to build a kind of organization that, you know, in some ways was a mixture between Berkshire with respect to its Capital and capitalism philosophy. The developments that are like Koch Industries with respect to its view on amalgamation and building co…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 13:49 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Palihapitiya purchased a 10% stake in the Golden State Warriors at 33
“So when I was 33 years old, I joined the ownership group of the warriors. I bought 10% of the business. I was one of six major holders of the business.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 40:54 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020
Insight
Palihapitiya: Accurately assessing a partner's integrity requires five to six months
“The only way that you can find people with high integrity is to spend enormous amounts of time with them over a longitudinal period of time. So it's not about two weeks of 10 hours a day. It turns out to be five or six months of many, many, many hours every we…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 17:10 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020
Assertion Supported
Palihapitiya: Facebook's early growth team underestimated ultimate scale by 10x
“When we were trying to project the impact of some of the things that we did, we were frankly off by an order of magnitude. We thought success would be getting the product to a hundred million users plus. And lo and behold, the product now touches three billion…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 7:17 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Jul 13, 2020 negative
Insight
Palihapitiya: Business growth forecasts are worthless regardless of data volume
“The first is that forecasts are pretty worthless because everybody gets them wrong no matter how much data you have.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 7:11 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
Nov 16, 2020 positive
Opinion
Butterfield: Chamath Palihapitiya was right 90% of the time on Slack's board
“We didn't have Chamath Palihapitiya on the board for that long, but he was always great in that there would be just one or two things that he thought were more important than anything else, and we should be focusing our time on then, and everything else we wer…”
Stewart Butterfield Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 38:57 20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
Mar 15, 2021 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Fadell: The world's first trillionaire will be someone who fixes climate change
“The first trillionaire in the world is someone who's going to fix climate change. It's true, because it's going to be all about atoms, and it's going to be about changing the infrastructure around us.”
Tony Fadell Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 35:32 20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
Oct 28, 2022
Insight
Palihapitiya: Investing is an infinite game where survival is the only success metric
“I think if you think about investing more broadly speaking, it's an infinite game. The only real competitor is yourself because the only thing you're really fighting is not really market gyrations, but it's your own psychology. And if you can manage your own p…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 28, 2022 ▶ 5:37 20VC: Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Vee, Brad Gerstner and more on Their Relationship To Money, How It Has Changed with Time and Wealth, How They Bring Up Their Children To Engender the Same Values of Ambition and Hard Work?
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: Chamath Palihapitiya is humble and kind in private
“The one thing I will say on Chamath is the public persona and the private persona are drastically different. He's actually very humble and kind privately.”
Harry Stebbings Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 1:09:42 Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rory O'Driscoll: SoFi is Chamath Palihapitiya's only successful SPAC
“SoFi was an interesting company, very differentiated, has gone on to be Tremat's only successful SPAC and you know, a perfectly great, successful public company.”
Rory O'Driscoll Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 1:17:16 Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 9, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
O'Driscoll: New SPAC terms require 50% stock gain before sponsor payout
“Now, the investor comes in at 10. Until the stock gets to 15, the sponsor gets nothing, but once it gets to 15, they get a 30% promote, so it's not cheap, but it's a little better than before.”
Rory O'Driscoll Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 1:21:40 OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Stebbings: Nvidia acquired Groq for $20B cash at 3x valuation markup
“Grok being acquired for twenty billion in cash. It happened just before Christmas. Chamath obviously coming out as one of the big winners. Price is three X more than the last round price.”
Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 1:08 Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 19, 2026 negative
Assertion Open
Lemkin: Chamath Palihapitiya has been sued by all his former partners
“Chamath, all his ex-partners have sued him. Mamoon sued them. The Grok guys he sued.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 1:15:46 Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M for AI startup 8090 as CEO
“Chamath Palihapitiya raises a hundred and thirty five million for his AI startup, eight zero nine zero or 8090, whatever he calls it. But he also is now CEO.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 58:02 Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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