Chamath Palihapitiya
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Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lanka-born, Canada-raised entrepreneur and investor with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo. He was a senior Facebook executive from 2007 to 2011, leading the company's Growth, Platform, and Mobile teams, after earlier roles at AOL and the Mayfield Fund. In 2011 he founded Social Capital, which he leads as CEO, and he co-hosts the All-In podcast alongside Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg.
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An article by Chamath Palihapitiya exploring the concept of a 'software factory' — a modern approach to building software at scale. It draws from real-world experience at 8090, where the team reverse-engineered and replaced an 18-million-line COBOL/Assembly billing engine. It examines how AI-powered development workflows can modernize legacy systems at enterprise scale.