Mike Ghaffary left Social Capital in August, shortly before the firm announced it would no longer raise outside capital.
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Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘we need to return to the roots of venture investing’
In a letter publicly released by Social Capital, Palihapitiya divulges on the VC industry’s biggest problems.
View More Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘we need to return to the roots of venture investing’The death of once high-flying VC funds
They all started with the best of intentions. Formation 8 talked about bringing “smart enterprise” to the corporate world. Social Capital talked about how to “fix capitalism,” and Binary Capital wanted to “affect global behaviour change.” Rothenberg Ventures set out to “work on the biggest problems that change the world.” Young founding partners debuting change-the-world […]
View More The death of once high-flying VC fundsThree former Social Capital partners are reportedly raising a $200M fund
Tribe Capital, the venture capital firm launched by Arjun Sethi, Jonathan Hsu and Ted Maidenber, a trio of former Social Capital partners, is reportedly raising $200 million for its first flagship venture capital fund.
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On this week’s episode, we discuss former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya’s declaration that the social network is effectively “destroying how society works,” the FCC’s vote on… Read More
Facebook bats back after a second former exec accuses it of negatively impacting society
Yesterday, The Verge published comments made by investor and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, quoting his interview last month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he echoed recent comments made by former Facebook president Sean Parker that the platform is having deleterious effects on society.
Said Palihapitiya at Stanford, “The short-term… Read More