CP

Chamath Palihapitiya

CEO at Social Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2011

2007 - 2011

  • VP, User Growth, Mobile & International

    2007 - 2011

    Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and growing Facebook adoption throughout the world. Also responsible for overseeing our mobile efforts.

  • VP, Platform & Monetization

    2007 - 2008

    Original exec in charge of FB Platform as well as launching and managing monetization efforts including online advertising channel.

2006 - 2007

  • Investor

    2006 - 2007

    Focused on investing primarily in Consumer Internet, Media and Advertising opportunities. Secondary focus on Games and Mobile.

2001 - 2005

  • Vice President & General Manager, AIM + ICQ

    2003 - 2005

    Led resurgence of two of the Internet' most visible and popular brands. Revamped entire brand, product and value proposition of AIM and closed many significant, high profile transactions. Oversaw ICQ team in Israel.

  • Director then Executive Director, Product

    2001 - 2003

    Responsible for Product and Premium Services for multiple entertainment categories including Games, Music, Movies, Television, Ticketing and Sports.

  • Product & Business Development

    2000 - 2001

    Responsible for product and bus dev at Winamp and Spinner.com - a pioneering media player and online radio company. Both companies were acquired by AOL.

1999 - 2000

  • Associate - Interest Rate Derivatives Group

    1999 - 2000

    Responsible for creating and trading interest rate derivatives. One of the youngest people in bank history to be given their own P&L and proprietary trading account.