#26
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Rising voice in Venture Capital
CP

Chamath Palihapitiya

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#26
LinkedIn Rank
16,730
Benchmarker Score
29
Posts
14,690
Likes
1,020
Comments
507
Avg Likes
35
Avg Comments
15,710
Total Engagement
542
Engagement Rate
8.9
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Weekly
Posting Regularity
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1,959,926 followers

Data last refreshed: April 20, 2026

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20 posts

Energy production is becoming one of America’s biggest bottlenecks. In the past 15 years, the U.S. added ~285 terawatt-hours (TWh) to the grid. In the next 15 years, we'll need ~2,000 TWh more (...

Market Analysis & Trends Image Renewable Energy Clean Energy Infrastructure Electric Vehicles Apr 06, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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To understand why housing affordability looks the way it does today, you have to understand how housing became a financial instrument in the first place. And the questions only get more difficult ...

Market Analysis & Trends Text Real Estate Macroeconomics Market Cycles Regulation & Policy Apr 03, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Excited to embark on this partnership with Rakesh and the EY team.

Ecosystem & Community Building Video (LinkedIn Source) N/A Mar 31, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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The fastest-growing occupation in the United States (home health aide) needs 800,000 more workers by 2033. There's not an easy path to recruiting 800,000 people into these roles in under a decade....

Market Analysis & Trends Image Robotics Automation Hardware Healthcare Industry Trends Mar 30, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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In 2016, Elon Musk founded Neuralink with the mission of creating a scalable BCI: a technology that enables sending and receiving information between the brain and computers without the use of phys...

Market Analysis & Trends Document NeuroTech Medical Devices Scaling Challenges Mar 27, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Brant is the ideal customer: very smart, ambitious, curious, yet demanding and exact! He’s been an early adopter of Software Factory, and his feedback has made it better. It’s exciting to help hi...

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Artificial Intelligence SaaS Enterprise Software B2B Product-Market Fit Mar 23, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Before the 2024 election, prediction markets were primarily a niche curiosity with weekly trading volumes hovering around $50 million. Today, it has grown to over $6 billion in weekly trading volum...

Market Analysis & Trends Text Fintech Marketplaces Industry Trends Mar 19, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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I’m very excited to announce a global partnership between 8090 and EY. EY will adopt 8090’s Software Factory to help their customers break free from slow, costly, and failure-prone legacy enterpri...

Portfolio Company Wins Text Enterprise Software Artificial Intelligence Developer Tools Automation Mar 18, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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The demand for more trading flexibility has exploded, with the number of pre- and after-market transactions surging to $1 billion. As of July 2025, foreign investors hold about $20T of U.S. equiti...

Market Analysis & Trends Image Blockchain Fintech Public Markets Regulation & Policy Mar 17, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Humans are not wired to win in today’s modern markets. For most of history, investing was about relationships, judgment, and timing. It was about who you knew, what you believed, and whether you h...

Thought Leadership & Future Outlook Image Artificial Intelligence Automation Fund Management Portfolio Management Mar 16, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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In my 2021 Social Capital Annual Letter, I warned that a demographic time bomb was already ticking. At the time, U.S. Census data showed deaths exceeding births in more than 73% of U.S. counties. ...

Market Analysis & Trends Text Macroeconomics Industry Trends Mar 12, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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China wants to move from the world's factory to a global standard-setter. They want to control global financial systems, physical infrastructure, technology standards, and critical supply chains (...

Market Analysis & Trends Image Manufacturing Supply Chain Electric Vehicles Robotics Renewable Energy Mar 10, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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nice!

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Quantum computing is either treated as distant science fiction or marketed as an all-purpose supercomputer posing an imminent threat to modern security and encryption. Based on the research my tea...

Market Analysis & Trends Document Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Infrastructure Cloud Computing National Security Mar 09, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Modern equity markets sit on infrastructure built long before digital networks existed. With the adoption of equity tokenization, these inefficiencies are beginning to lift. Since the start of 202...

Market Analysis & Trends Text Blockchain Crypto Web3 Fintech Public Markets Mar 05, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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first live demo + Q&A next Wednesday open to anyone interested!

Events & Speaking Engagements Document N/A Mar 05, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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The electric grid is the backbone of any nation-state in the digital age. And any grid transformation depends on owning critical minerals... As it stands, China controls 60-90% of processing for ...

Market Analysis & Trends Image Supply Chain Battery Technology Energy Storage Renewable Energy National Security Mar 03, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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We're just getting started!

Thought Leadership & Future Outlook Video (LinkedIn Source) Leadership Mar 02, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Physical AI will be key in the AI stack that I'm thinking through for my annual letter, so we did a standalone Deep Dive on Humanoid Robotics. Let me know what you think.

Market Analysis & Trends Text Artificial Intelligence Robotics Hardware Industry Trends Feb 26, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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10 years ago, Elon Musk was the first person to tell me pretty emphatically that we should always favor building a machine to build machines vs building a machine...that has stuck with me and was a...

Personal Journey & Reflections Text Founder Journey Mentorship Automation Manufacturing Robotics Feb 24, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Rank History

Apr 2026
#26

Content Categories

Market Analysis & Trends 15
Thought Leadership & Future Outlook 3
Portfolio Company Wins 3
Team & Firm Culture 3
Personal Journey & Reflections 2

Topics & Themes

Industry Trends Artificial Intelligence Automation Renewable Energy Robotics Macroeconomics Regulation & Policy Manufacturing Hiring & Talent Company Culture Team Building Clean Energy Enterprise Software Fintech Public Markets Leadership Scaling Challenges Energy Storage Developer Tools AI Agents

Top Quartile Benchmarks

Based on top 94 of 376 in Venture Capital

Posts
51
Chamath: 236 ↑
Likes
21,855
Chamath: 1,099,244 ↑
Comments
1,662
Chamath: 61,617 ↑
Avg Likes
291.4
Chamath: 4,657.8 ↑
Avg Comments
20.9
Chamath: 261.1 ↑
Benchmarker Score
25,178
Chamath: 1,222,478 ↑
Posts/Week
2.4
Chamath: 8.9 ↑
Avg Post Length
447 chars
Chamath: 479 ↑
Trending Topics (Top Quartile)
Artificial Intelligence Regulation & Policy Industry Trends Founder Journey Fundraising