查馬斯帕裡哈皮蒂亞（；）是斯里蘭卡出生的加拿大及美國人，是風險投資主義者、工程師、SPAC 的發起人、創始人和的執行長。 2007 年到 2011 年在 Facebook 是早期高階管理人員。離開 Facebook 後，開始了自己的基金。 Palihapitiya was an early senior executive at Facebook working at the company from 2007 to 2011 Following his departure from Facebook Palihapitiya started his fund The SocialCapital Partnership through which he invested in several companies including Yammer and Slack The SocialCapital Partnership changed its name to Social Capital in 2015 He is a cohost of technology podcast All In Early life and education Palihapitiya was born on 3 September 1976 in Sri Lanka In 1982 Palihapitiya moved with his family to Canada at age five his father Gamage had been posted to the High Commission of Sri Lanka Ottawa Five years later in 1986 the posting came to an end and the family applied for refugee status rather than returning home on the basis that Gamage had been criticized for his views on the violence during the Sri Lankan Civil War Palihapitiyas father was frequently unemployed and his mother did lowpaying housekeeping jobs At age 14 Palihapitiya worked at a Burger King to support his family His father died on October 2014 He attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute After graduating from the University of Waterloo in 1999 with a degree in electrical engineering Palihapitiya worked for a year as a derivatives trader at the investment bank BMO Nesbitt Burns He then accepted a job offer at Winamp and moved to California Career 20042011 Winamp AOL Mayfield and Facebook Palihapitiya joined Winamp which was subsequently acquired by AOL here he became the companys youngest vice president ever heading its instant messaging division in 2004 In 2005 he left AOL and joined Mayfield Fund in 2007 he left Mayfield and joined Facebook which was then a little more than three years old Palihapitiyas work at Facebook in the first year was messy from his account Palihapitiya led the release of Facebook Beacon which failed and led to lawsuits After this failure Palihapitiya pitched leading Growth where his team focused entirely on new user growth After four years Facebook hit 1B users Before leaving Facebook Palihapitiya led the Facebook Phone and Facebook Home projects Steven Levy wrote in Facebook The Inside Story that Palihapitiya was regarded as a bully at Facebook and that he had made many of his subordinates cry regularly 2011present Social Capital MultiLP Venture Capital Fund In 2011 he left Facebook and started his own fund The SocialCapital Partnership with his thenwife The firm changed its name to Social Capital in 2015 Through the fund Palihapitiya invested in a number of companies including Glooko Inc Yammer SecondMarket Slack and Box As of 2015 the fund had more than 11 billion in total assets most of which came from external investors ie LPs In 2018 there was a massive decrease in Social Capital funds operations and a significant exodus of top management and cofounders Axios reported that Palihapitiya was spending a significant amount of time with his new girlfriend in Italy and rarely showed up to the office or answered emails from employees The firm returned investor capital and converted into a family office although continued to manage some external capital on a nofee basis In December 2019 Palihapitiya stepped down as a member of the board of directors of Slack Transition to Single GP Technology Holding Company After transitioning to a single GP firm essentially Palihapitiyas family office in 2018 Palihapitiya said he wanted to return to first principles and restructure the firm to better align with the longterm interests of entrepreneurs not just limited partners LPs Since then Social Capital has made investments in three areas climate science life sciences and biotechnology and the decentralization of the digital economy through platforms such as blockchain crypto and digital assets Palihapitiya manages from a balance sheet of permanent capital SPAC platform Palihapitiya previously said that he reserved symbols all the way from IPOA through IPOZ In 2019 Palihapitiya helped take Virgin Galactic public through a SPAC previously known as IPOA In March 2021 Palihapitiya sold his personal stake Virgin Galactic for around US213 million In February 2022 Palihapitiya stepped down as chairman of Virgin Galactic In 2020 Social Capital Hedosophia took Opendoor an online real estate marketplace public through a SPAC OpenDoor raised 1 billion through the merger 400 million of which came from the SPAC and an additional 600 million through PIPE investors Palihapitiya accounted for 100 million of the PIPE In 2021 Palihapitiya announced he planned to help take SoFi a financial services platform and Clover Health a Medicare insurance company public through SPACs This gained Palihapitiya criticism from the Financial Times which said that he is shilling risky reversemergers to retail investors on a almost bimonthly basis Following the Clover Health SPAC Hindenburg Research a financial analyst and shortselling specialist firm issued a report about this transaction accusing Palihapitiya of luring investors into a broken business argumenting that he failed to inform them about an active Department of Justice investigation into Clovers alleged deceptive business practices Palihapitiya made more than 290 million from the deal based on a 25k investment In addition the Clover Health cofounderCEOs previous company CarePoint Health a hospital conglomerate in New Jersey was accused of price gouging customers and according to a NJ state commission siphoning off 150 million to himself and his friends bankrupting the company and causing a hospital crisis in NJ Regulators in NJ called for an investigation of Clover Health because of the CEOs previous actions The Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the allegations set forth in the Hindenburg Research report on February 4 During the GameStop short squeeze Palihapitiya repeatedly attacked Robinhood and its founders for being unethical by selling payment for order flow to HFT firms like Citadel Securities and pushed his fans to switch over to SoFi which was merging with his SPAC yet failed to mention that SoFi employs the same practice of selling payment for order flow to HFT firms including to Citadel Securities and owns a 16 stake in Apex Clearing Corp a clearing house involved in the controversy In April 2021 John Coates acting director of the SECs corporatefinance division criticized Palihapitiyas views on the benefits of SPACs over traditional IPOs Coates clarified that a judge could rule a SPAC is similar enough to an IPO that the lesser securities law liability would be void In June 2021 Social Capital Survetta filed for four new SPACs which would focus on biotechnology companies under the stock tickers DNAA through DNAD Political positions and activities Palihapitiya has donated to the Democratic Party As of February 2021 he has reportedly donated 13 million to the party over the past decade He donated 7500 to Republican Ted Cruz in 2011 In March 2020 Palihapitiya told The New York Times that he would like to see Michael Bloomberg at the top of the Democratic ticket in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries paired with Amy Klobuchar or Elizabeth Warren Immigration reform and policy advocacy Palihapitiya was listed as one of the Founders of the lobbying group FWDus The group launched on 11 April 2013 and its goals include immigration reform improving education and enabling technological innovation all in a United States context An article in The New Republic stated that Palihapitiya received a weekly report about FWDus and also quoted him as saying in response to controversy around the FWDus political lobbying strategy The folks that are actually people that run that day to day are sophisticated and understand the nuances of how to affect it Its a really gnarly gnarly thing having to deal with Washington And to be honest with you my perspective was its a really good investment because its a good way to pay it forward and Im really glad there are other people other than me who are dealing with it who have the patience and resolve to figure it out San Francisco inequality and housing controversy At Bloombergs Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito California Palihapitiya made remarks critical of San Franciscos then mayor Ed Lee and proposed that the city provide subsidized housing to lowincome residents funded by an equity tax on startups with the taxandsubsidy schemes potentially restricted to particular zones of the city This led to a heated debate between Palihapitiya and super angel Ron Conway Conway a supporter of Lee defended the citys policies argued that things would get better for all residents and noted that Palihapitiya lives in Palo Alto rather than in the city In a later clarification to TechCrunch Palihapitiya outlined his vision in more detail and described how his views on inequality and social mobility were shaped by his experience growing up with relatively poor immigrant parents in Canada Criticism of Facebook and social media In November 2017 Palihapitiya said that for ethical reasons he regretted helping Facebook to become the largest social media platform He said The shortterm dopaminedriven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works no civil discourse no collaboration misinformation mistruth and its not an American problem This is not about Russian ads This is a global problem It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other After criticism from Facebook for his remarks Palihapitiya said I genuinely believe that Facebook is a force for good in the world so Id like to expand on my comments My comments were meant to start an important conversation not to criticize one companyparticularly one I love In 2017 many of us have grappled with the unintended consequences of the products weve built Social media platforms in particular have been used and abused in ways that we their architects never imagined Much blame has been thrown and guilt felt but the important thing is what we as an industry do now to ensure that our impact on society continues to be a positive oneGilbert Ben December 15 2017 Former Facebook exec I take back what I said about Facebook destroying how society works kinda Business InsiderPalihapitiya Chamath December 15 2017 Untitled Facebook Account confirmed by Business Insider article He reiterated this criticism in a podcast with Kara Swisher California gubernatorial campaign On 25 January 2021 Palihapitiya announced he would challenge incumbent California Governor Gavin Newsom in the event Newsom were recalled If elected Palihapitiya said he would cut the state income tax rate from 16 to 0 percent provide free education vouchers allow for a two thousand dollar credit for every child born in California and work to make California the center of climate and technology jobs He shared a campaign website that was created by a supporter In February 2021 however Palihapitiya declared he would not run for Governor Comments on Uyghur genocide In January 2022 Palihapitiya said on the podcast AllIn with Chamath Jason Sacks Friedberg to cohost Jason Calacanis that the Uyghur genocide does not concern him Nobody cares about whats happening to the Uyghurs okay You bring it up because you care and I think its nice that you care The rest of us dont care Im just telling you a very hard ugly truth Of all the things that I care about yes it is below my line Palihapitiya said he and most Americans care more about domestic economic issues than the human rights abuses of Chinas Uyghur minority In response the Golden State Warriors issued a statement saying that Palihapitiya does not speak on behalf of our franchise and his views certainly dont reflect those of our organization Palihapitiya made further remarks in a tweet saying that he recognized he came across as lacking empathy and that To be clear my belief is that human rights matter whether in China the United States or elsewhere Full stop Investments and philanthropy During his time at Facebook Palihapitiya invested in several startups through Embarcadero Ventures a venture capital fund In 2010 Palihapitiya helped to buy the Golden State Warriors for 450 million he remains a minority stakeholder and board member of the team According to the team as of 2022 he was a limited investor with no daytoday operating functions In 2022 Palihapitiyas 10 stake in the team was worth 520 million a 2000 return on his 25 million initial investment Palihapitiya has donated consistently to his alma mater the University of Waterloo including a 25 million donation towards the engineering department in 2018 In 2021 he donated 7 million to provide clean drinking water to 1000 families in Californias central valley through a partnership with one2one an American foundation and Source Global the maker of solarpowered hydropanels that extract potable water from the air Personal life After graduating from college Palihapitiya followed his future wife Brigette Lau to California They had three children together and divorced in 2018 Palihapitiya now lives in California with Nathalie Dompe an Italian pharmaceutical heiress model and CEO of Dompe Holdings whom he started dating in 2018 and with whom he has one child In a December 2017 interview Palihapitiya said that he keeps his children as far away from technology as possible except for the occasional movie explaining I dont like this codependency of they need to rely on me and when they cant I feed them a device because that becomes a babysitter Palihapitiya has three World Series of Poker WSOP and two World Poker Tour WPT cashes for a total of 175801 In 2011 he finished 101st out of 6865 entries in the World Series of Pokers Main Event Palihapitiya purchased a 75 million Bombardier Global 7500 in 2020 參見 List of University of Waterloo people 參考 外部連結 Category 美國億萬富豪 Category 斯里蘭卡裔美國人 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