chamath-palihapitiya
A Venture Capitalist Finally Weighs in on the Met Brawl
Sam Biddle · 05/16/14 01:46PMNitasha Tiku · 03/27/14 10:22AM
Buy Your Teen's Way Into Y Combinator
Nitasha Tiku · 11/04/13 07:20PMThis weekend, Bing Nursery School, an elite institution for precocious little 2-to-5-year-olds, is holding its 25th Annual Harvest Moon Auction with all proceeds going toward student scholarships. As you might expect from a nursery school where Stanford University connections count so heavily, a handful of the items from the online auction are awfully startup-oriented.
This Asshole Misses the Shutdown
Sam Biddle · 10/17/13 04:44PMSomeday, we'll be able to replace the public good with some sort of app or Twitter-connected mug—but for now, tech's strategy seems to be just ignoring notions of "society" and "cooperation." For many powerful figures in Silicon Valley, the federal shutdown was proof they don't need to care about you.
Ex-Facebook Exec: Startup World Should Be "Utterly Ashamed" Of Itself
Sam Biddle · 04/30/13 10:12AMFormer Facebook bigwig and current investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn't pulling any punches at this week's TechCrunch Disrupt, where many a punch is typically pulled. He's disgusted with what's called tech innovation now, saying "we are at an absolute minimum in terms of things that are being started."