Dave Phelan

About Dave Phelan

Chamath Palihapitiya is a former Facebook executive who led the Growth team that scaled the platform from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of users, and he now applies this growth systems perspective to venture investing at Social Capital. He models his approach on Warren Buffett by building Social Capital as a permanent-capital holding company focused on concentrated, high-conviction bets, and he has become known for using SPACs and other capital-market structures to give public investors access to high-growth technology companies traditionally reserved for private markets.

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