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Social Capital
Company blog · socialcapital.com/ideasstartupsbusinesseconomics
Social Capital is the company blog at socialcapital.com, writing about startups, business and economics. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “2019 Annual Letter by Social Capital”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital annual letters, cited for calling out specific actors and making prescriptions on tech and society, and for the fund's investment return figures.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
Most-linked posts?
- 2019 Annual Letter by Social Capital7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
- 2020 Annual Letter from Chamath’s Social Capital2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-26
- 2021 Annual Letter – Social Capital2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-25
What Hacker News says?
No offense to Chamath (what I know of him, I think he's generally pretty smart and likable), but this is a bit of a stretch: > He said that investors pump money into “shitty, useless, idiotic companies,” rather than addressing real problems like climate change and disease. Palihapitiya currently runs his own VC firm, Social Capital, which focuses on funding companies in sectors like healthcare and education. http://…
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on “Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society”Submitted Capital-as-a-Service as a story · 45 points
HN discussionFor that reason, I prefer Chamath Palihapitiya's 2019 annual letter [1] over pmarca's essay. It's not merely descriptive of societal problems at large, but calls out actor and makes prescriptions. Two lines from the letter > Governments can do a lot to make it more expensive for Big Tech to hoard human capital and allow this talent to flow more naturally to small businesses and startups so that they can more effecti…
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on “How Tech Can Build”Submitted 2020 Annual Letter from Chamath’s Social Capital as a story · 10 points
HN discussionDon't really care for the guy, but a 36.5% IRR over a decade plus period is really really good. See figure 1, very impressive among most metrics. https://www.socialcapital.com/ideas/2021-annual-letter.pdf
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on “The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor”Submitted 2019 Annual Letter by Social Capital as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNot sure if you follow Chamath Palihapitiya but his company's annual letter had a really interesting take on this: https://www.socialcapital.com/annual-letters/2019 A new space race A common theme amongst optimists is how much technological advance we have seen and how these advances seem to be accelerating. I am of the opposite camp and believe, roughly, that the rate of progress has been steadily declining since w…
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on “A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952) [video]”Submitted Social Capital's 2018 annual letter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted Curing America’s Energy Woes? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2019 Social Capital Annual Letter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital Annual Letter (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Capital’s performance vs. the S&P 500 [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Capital 2021 Annual Letter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2021 Annual Letter – Social Capital as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Capital 2020 annual letter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Capital 2019 annual letter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2019 Annual Letter – Social Capital – Chamath Palihapitiya as a story · 1 points
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