Former Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya Makes a Case for Tech for Good
In a world like the startup world with high risks, investors might as well gamble on technology for the social good, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya argued in a presentation at a tech conference in San Francisco.
In a world like the startup world with high risks, investors might as well gamble on technology for the social good, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya argued in a presentation at a tech conference in San Francisco.
After leaving Facebook in July 2011, Palihapitiya launched The Social+Capital Partnership, an investment fund that looks for technologies that can make dramatic transformations in health care and education.
The fund has invested in a company that manufactures a mass spectrometer for individuals, for example.
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