Talk:Chamath Palihapitiya

Requests in "Early life,” "Venture capitalist" and "Personal life" sections

I want to express appreciation to Ferkjl for his most recent, extremely helpful edits. I have several more requests to make.  Done#In the "Early life and education section", please remove the last phrase after "California": "...to be with his then-girlfriend, Brigette Lau, and they later married.” This information belongs in the "Personal life" section.

 Done#In the "Personal life" section please add the following in place of "In February 2018, Palihapitiya filed for divorce from his then-spouse Brigette Lau. Palihapitiya has three children from his marriage with Lau." And please delete "Palihapitiya currently lives in California with his girlfriend Nathalie Dompe, an Italian pharmaceutical heiress to the Dompe Group and model. Dompe announced via Twitter that the couple had another child in 2019." The following covers all the relevant information and is more clear and better sourced and also incorporates the information that was just removed from the "Early life" section. It also removes the Twitter source, replacing with a better source: "After graduating college, he followed his future wife, Brigette Lau, to California. They had three children together, and divorced in 2018. He now lives in California with Nathalie Dompe, an Italian pharmaceutical heiress and model, with whom he has one child.

 Done#In the "Venture capitalist" section, the following sentence should be removed and the paragraph should begin with the next sentence. "In 2018, Social Capital 'burned down; as Axios put it." This is a "screaming headline" to get the reader's attention, and does not have a place on Wikipedia. Also, in the group of four sources that follow the new opening sentence, two are redundant and the extra citation should be removed. The source at the end of the paragraph is also a repetition of one of the sources in the "group of four sources" and should be fixed.

 Done#in the paragraph that begins "In 2020, Palihapitiya helped take Virgin Galactic public through a SPAC," The next sentence should end after "...for around US$213 million." The rest of the sentence is not mentioned in any of the references.

 Done#A long and rambling paragraph at the end of the "Venture capitalist" section was just added by Igorikrasti, who was recently blocked from editing by Blablubbs. This paragraph was added as a meritless criticism of Palihapitiya. If you look at the sources, you will see that the first two do not mention Palihapitiya at all, and only the last source at the end of the paragraph does. On careful reading of that source, it is clear that Coates and Palihapitiya have a difference of opinion about SPACS, and Coates is not criticizing Palihapitiya for any specific wrong-doing. The whole paragraph is misleading and hard to understand as well as taken out of context and should be removed.

 Not done#Unhelpful photos were added to the page by the blocked editor Igorikrasti recently. I am requesting that these photos, especially the one depicting Palihapitiya with his ex-wife, be removed.

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I want to express my sincere appreciation for all your help. CarmenCatSC (talk) 04:23, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

I see no harm in the added photographs. Perhaps someone else has a different opinion, but I see no reason to remove them. All other requests were implemented. I DID add a short reference to the statement by Mr. Coates, as it's relevant to Mr. Palihapitiya's venture capitalist working styleFerkjl (talk) 13:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Genocide support in first sentence

I find the recent comments despicable. I also think that prominent misbehavior does belong in the first sentence. But I find "Chamath Palihapitiya... is a ... a genocide supporter" isn't quite right because 1) there is no WP:RS cited using that term or anything like it, 2) his comments are mostly about not caring which is different from supporting, 3) he subsequent comments emphasize this difference, 4) use of the word "supporter" and placement in the first sentence imply an ongoing activity of support, so it doesn't seem to be an accurate summary of the WP:RS. I'm going to remove it from the first sentence for now. That said, I think it would be fine to cover it in the lead section. Yes, it is recent, and yes, we don't really know what the due weight will be. But it has already major coverage. Chris vLS (talk) 06:30, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

His uyghur comment certainly deserves a controversies section Yakoveh (talk) 08:10, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

He didn't say he supported it. This is true. Yet for upwards of an hour, he made it clear he didn't really care about it or oppose it. That's why it's important, in lieu of his statement after the fact, to not understate what he said. He vigorously attacked Calacanis repeatedly, calling him a charlatan shilling for human rights. It is truly strange to see this play out--those podcasts are obviously edited, and how could they not expect this kind of bad publicity? It's almost like Jason had to beg Chamath to show a tiny ounce of humanity, it was really quite sad to watch. It reminds me of the premediated idiocy of the guy who recorded and leaked the video of the Ahmaud Arbery killing, thus incriminating him. How full of yourself do you have to be to not realize what you just said/did? The current description of the event is too charitable to Chamath--there has to be a source eventually that goes into how he repeatedly defended his apathy while basically calling Jason a privileged slacktivist, in an extremely mean, bullying grind, for quite a long time. It wasn't just a single out of context quip. I listened to the whole podcast. 2600:1012:B02E:B798:DA:64D6:6604:C444 (talk) 08:17, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

"The entire league, including its most bankable superstar, LeBron James, have been silent to protect their financial interests in a basketball-crazed Chinese market that promises billions of dollars. Despite a league-wide commitment to Black Lives Matter and civil rights concerns stateside, the NBA and its network of franchises reflect a broader business calculus that renders the lives of Uyghur Muslims insignificant when pit against immense profit." [1].103.77.137.29 (talk) 11:14, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Edits & Rewrite

@Tobby72 Just wanted to ping you as I noticed my edits had been reverted. I think this page needs quite a bit of a rewrite, from incorrect information (he's dropped off the Forbes list), irrelevant information (much of the section on political positions) to excessive quotes and prose. Do have a look at the parts I rewrote, and would be good to work on this. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 11:44, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

@SerAntoniDeMiloni I think the section on his political views is relevant and should remain in the article per WP:PUBLICFIGURE, although edits and improvements are welcome. If you think otherwise, then you should get the consensus of other users (not just me) and convince them that deleting most of the information about his political positions and activities will benefit the article and the encyclopedia. We should wait to see what other editors think about it. -- Tobby72 (talk) 09:55, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

That content appears to be weakly sourced and may not pass WP:WEIGHT. Do you have more mainstream coverage of these views? SPECIFICO talk 14:26, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Which content do you mean specifically? – diff. Are CNBC, Reuters, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Forbes or Bloomberg weak sources? I'm sure we'll be able to find other reliable sources via google. -- Tobby72 (talk) 09:10, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

I agree, the quotes are excessive, and there's too much focus on things he said as opposed to things he did.

Also don't think it makes sense to have a third of the article be about his political positions, when he's not a politician. Even for real politicians, we wouldn't give this much weight to "positions". DFlhb (talk) 22:28, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Recent Poker Livestream Statistics for Chamath Palihapitiya

Dear fellow Wikipedians,

I have collected some recent livestream statistics from Highroll Poker for Chamath Palihapitiya. This data provides a comprehensive look at his performance in poker livestreams, covering net winnings, voluntary put money in pot (VPIP) percentage, preflop raise (PFR) percentage, hours played, hourly earnings, and big blinds won per hour (BB/Hour) on each platform.

https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/players/1755

Here are the details:

- On "Poker Night USA", Palihapitiya recorded net losses of -$30,700 over 4 hours, with an hourly loss rate of -$7,675.00, and -153.50 BB/Hour.

- On "High Stakes Poker", he achieved net winnings of $65,000 over 18 hours, with a VPIP of 30%, a PFR of 12%, an hourly earning rate of $3,611.11, and 2.26 BB/Hour.

- On "Hustler Casino Live", he accumulated net winnings of $361,500 over 6 hours, with a VPIP of 32%, a PFR of 17%, an hourly earning rate of $60,250.00, and 301.25 BB/Hour.

Collectively, Palihapitiya's net winnings across all platforms total $395,800. He has played for 28 hours, with an average VPIP of 31%, a PFR of 14%, average hourly earnings of $14,135.71, and an average BB/Hour of 30.90.

As of July 2023, this data offers an extensive overview of Palihapitiya's recent performances in poker. Due to my association with Highroll Poker, I am seeking community input and verification to ensure transparency and avoid any possible conflicts of interest.

Thank you for your time and consideration, Michael Hygnn1 (talk) 05:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)