#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All-In Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Social Capital (website): https://socialcapital.com
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:55) – Childhood and forgiveness
(21:39) – Money and happiness
(28:29) – Poker
(31:57) – Mistakes
(42:47) – Early jobs
(44:25) – Facebook
(1:02:11) – Energy
(1:09:51) – Cloud computation
(1:14:06) – Fixing social media
(1:23:58) – Trump’s Twitter ban
(1:29:03) – Kanye West
(1:40:15) – All-In Podcast
(1:49:31) – Nuclear war
(2:01:07) – Startups
(2:09:38) – Work-life balance
(2:20:47) – Teamwork
(2:32:08) – Energy transition
(2:42:41) – Silicon Valley culture
(2:46:00) – Activism culture
(2:50:21) – Advice for young people
(2:56:56) – Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Chimath Palaepatia, |
| 0:03.3 | Adventure Capitalist and Engineer, |
| 0:05.6 | Founder and CEO of Social Capital, |
| 0:08.1 | previously an early senior executive at Facebook, |
| 0:11.7 | and is the co-host of the All-In podcast, |
| 0:16.5 | a podcast that I highly recommend for the wisdom |
| 0:19.9 | and the camaraderie of the four co-hosts, |
| 0:22.6 | also known as Besties. |
| 0:26.2 | And now a quick few seconds mention of each sponsor. |
| 0:28.9 | Check them out in the description, |
| 0:30.4 | it's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | We got Bambi for HR services, |
| 0:35.3 | Inside Tracker for Bio-Mondering, |
| 0:37.5 | Net Suite for Business Management Software, |
| 0:39.7 | Simply Safe for Home Security, |
| 0:41.3 | and Indeed for Hiring, |
| 0:43.5 | Choose-wise to my friends. |
| 0:45.1 | And now onto the full ad reads, |
| 0:46.8 | as always, no ads in the middle. |
| 0:48.4 | I try to make this interesting, |
| 0:50.0 | but if you skip them, |
| 0:51.2 | please still check out our sponsors. |
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