Chamath Palihapitiya impressed me last year with his straight-forward no bull approach. Plus he’s invested in companies like box.net and AirBnB so he has a good eye for great entrepreneurs.
But lately I’ve heard that his VC Fund, https://angel.co/the-social-capital-partnership, has been investing in wearable computing, hardware, and contextual stuff, so I wanted to hear what he’s thinking. Boy did he lay a lot on the line here. Not only explained how he sees the world changing due to social technology (he was an executive at Facebook) but also laid out how sensors and wearable computers will change the world. Oh, and he takes some good swings at Silicon Valley, too.
Fascinating talk, thank you.
Interesting he derides the value of going to a university when his co-founder at Social Capital is a HBS grad and many of his employees are university/MBA grads…
I can give my Gmail and FB account password easy,
and am got over 100 000 emails, with hundreds of account information, tied to this account, literally.
Jeez, I probably know enough about diabetes to start something. But I am not a doctor.
The proper name is "those who brain it"
Great interview. However, I found Robert's frequent interruptions very distracting. When listening to an interview, one could care less about the personal opinions of the interviewer. The focus should remain on the interviewee, which is the reason why we all clicked on this video. I learned alot from Chamath.
some advice. take it or leave it. when someone is talking, wait until they are completely (enema and bidet flushed) done before you say anything. Completely done isnt just the end of a sentence. Completely done means there is an actual moment of silence because they completed their point.
Doing what you did in this interview is just shortsighted. The guy's words are gold. Why would you crash his train of thought with your unmemorable anecdotes?
nice watch…
Nice point of view . We're living a world of image. People now are giving more importance to other things then education or trying to be sucessful using their skills. Everybody are looking for a place under the sun but not using knowlodge but what they are good at.
He speaks well, then, why he needs a platinum ring and an expensive watch??
All Indians have promiscuous love for gold…
Terrible interviewer. Terrible interviewee. One was just failing to accommodate his guest (the interviewer), and the other (the interviewee) is an opinionated windbag. It's not clear to me whether or not anything useful or particularly true is being said here in terms of an overarching cultural narrative. Just a lot of "look at me I'm smart sounding" kind of talk. The conversation touches on issues that might be thought provoking, but the answers to those issues definitely aren't coming from Chamath here.
Wow…. I like the way that +Chamath Palihapitiya explains social equity/value….
Thank god someone who has some sense.
wait does he really think that building a system that gives perfectly healthy people a death sentence to push them into experimental drug trials while they're still healthy is a good idea?
I like how he indirectly plugged Treehouse and now I'm using it…
B_lls_it! – Silicon valley is racist in hiring! Whites, Asians and Indians only hire their own kind – period! Black or Spanish can have same level the education, but no chance!
master c_cks_ck_er!
Outstanding interview!
wow you are a dickbag. say latent one more time.
The person recording the video NEEDS TO STOP SAYING "yep." "yep." "yep." "yep." so annoying.
can you stop cutting him off!!
Some people aren't meant for success, whoever comments on this page is sold on mediocrity and your failure comes from a lack of originality.. everything is badge status should be honored you like humiliation.
My belief is that the sharing economy was helped greatly by the "bad economy". Yes, there's nothing wrong with the sharing economy and it would have happened anyway; but it got a big push by a lousy economy.
all I garnered from this is that everyone has a weakness. This VCs weakness is his gmail password as they joke about, everything else is framed in a world which is evolving so rapidly that it makes itself obsolete. The only true capital that exists is art. Not pop, not commercial. Pure. Art. Art is the foundation of innovation. The expression of failure. The reconciliation of education. Lemmings don't kill themselves btw Chamath
Utterly fascinating. Amazing.
This was a very good and interesting conversation/talk.
His opening statement – 'Cacophony sounds like beat'. Everything he says is so distorted but makes complete sense because he has earned high social capital that comes from the signalling he is totally against. That signal is coming to him simply by virtue of his investments in airbnb and box. That makes him successful so whatever logic he presents is sacred to whole lot here.