Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya, Investor, Social Capital

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Kara Swisher about working on Winamp, AOL Instant Messenger and Facebook before becoming an outspoken investor. In today's Silicon Valley, he says, old investment firms are dying and the next hundred-billion-dollar companies will be more diverse and open-minded. He also evaluates Twitter, Yahoo and the racial animosity of Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.0	Recode radio presents Recode Decode hosted by Cara Swisher powered by digital
0:35.0	media. Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode. You may know me as the
0:40.0	proud owner of very small hands, but I guarantee you they're just fine. But in my
0:45.0	spare time I talk about tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast
0:49.0	about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world
0:53.0	we live in. You can subscribe to Recode Decode. Stop. I'm here with Jamat
0:57.0	and he's laughing and I'm going to get him to pronounce his last name to you.
1:00.0	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode and while
1:05.0	you're here, leave us a review. I'm going to mispronounce your name, Jamat.
1:09.0	Today in the red chair, we have Jamat. Polyhappitya. Polyhappitya, the founder of the
1:14.0	venture capital firm, social plus capital, right? Social capital. Social capital.
1:18.0	All right. Before he was, I've messed up everything your name and the name. He's had
1:21.0	a plus in there for a while, right? We did, but then we finally bought the domain back
1:25.0	from some Harvard professor that lured it over us.
1:28.0	Oh, like my slash with the Recode.net. I'm going to try to get mine.
1:31.0	Before he was a VC, he worked at AOL and Facebook. I met him at AOL.
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