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Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder & CEO, Social Capital

Real Alpha has cut 10 moments of Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder & CEO, Social Capital) talking, from 2 interviews on Moonshots and All-In, the latest published Oct 21, 2026.

What Chamath Palihapitiya said

Cybersecurity · 2

  1. Moonshots · · 3 min

    Chamath thinks Bitcoin is capped and could eventually be hacked

    “I just think it's capped. And then I think eventually it gets hacked and then it goes to zero.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya1:49:01
  2. Moonshots · · 6 min

    Chamath treated data theft as a baseline risk at Facebook

    “you should just assume that most of everything we do is being exfiltrated”
    Chamath Palihapitiya1:42:02

Investing in AI · 2

  1. All-In · · 7 min

    CoreWeave’s main risk is refinancing its fixed-price contracts

    “The most important thing that you should always look at is how the sharps, the super smart money, prices risk.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya6:01
  2. All-In · · 6 min

    Anthropic should prioritize compute runway over IPO valuation

    “If Anthropic is going to go through and survive an eventual correction, I think it's much better for them to have 200 to $250 billion today”
    Chamath Palihapitiya56:07

More · 6

  1. Moonshots · · 8 min

    Power shortages will constrain AI more than chips

    “by 2050, we're still 1.4 terawatt hours short, which is effectively six California's worth of electricity.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya41:16
  2. Moonshots · · 4 min

    Chip startups may create useful IP but poor equity returns

    “all the memory's blocked, all the fab space is taken up, all the packaging capacity is absorbed, and now you're the nth person in line.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya1:55:36
  3. Moonshots · · 5 min

    Chamath favors measurable giving over the Giving Pledge

    “the only goal was to put my name on a list and to add my number to their number so that they could walk around with a bigger number.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya9:12
  4. Moonshots · · 5 min

    Giving kids equity can teach ownership at scale

    “Direct contributions into the accounts of kids who can then be a participant in the experiment that is capitalism and democracy in the United States is a no-brainer.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya25:30
  5. Moonshots · · 6 min

    AI oversight should inspect labs’ founding documents

    “So I think maybe what we should be asking is those things should be inspectable in a much more open source way.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya1:02:36
  6. Moonshots · · 5 min

    New therapies could cut healthcare costs in half

    “that probably clips the cost of healthcare in half.”
    Chamath Palihapitiya1:11:41

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