Since our founding, we’ve never stopped searching for better and better ways to help entrepreneurs win. To do this, we’ve consistently challenged ourselves to explore what the future might look like. By definition, the future may be radically different from the present way of doing things in Silicon Valley. …

If you’re a student of technology companies, you’ve heard this adage many times. That, ultimately, you must disrupt yourself. Because if you don’t, the winds of change will set upon you and you will be rendered obsolete. It has been true for a multitude of technology companies big and small…

For all the credit the tech industry gets for making things cheaper, faster and better, there remains a growing list of of critical, real world problems that are still largely unsolved, and in many cases, getting worse. The sustainability of our cities is at the top of that list. For…

The fallout from the race for “credit” in Silicon Valley — Now that we are beginning a period of self reflection about Silicon Valley gone awry, I would like to add something important to the list. …

One of the greatest experiences of my life was the opportunity to create and lead the Growth team at Facebook. …

VENTURE CAPITAL DOESN’T SCALE…UNTIL IT DOES Over the last few years, I’ve been preoccupied with the established maxim, “venture capital doesn’t scale,” as it never quite made sense to me. It seemed the antiquated belief of an industry yet to be transformed, because we’ve seen firsthand how other markets can…

There has been a lot of talk recently about why LinkedIn sold to Microsoft. One of the more popular theories about why they sold was around LinkedIn’s use of Stock Based Compensation (SBC) — as advanced succintly here by Andrew Ross Sorkin. This isn’t the first time that people have…

Here at Social Capital we’ve been watching Tesla for many years. We originally tried to get cute on valuation and almost had our faces ripped off. We’ve learned that changing your mind is free — so we did and have been happy supporters ever since. …

Part of what makes it fun to work at Social Capital is the amount of time we take to think through the broad continuum of technology. The impacts of technology don’t stop after a Series A or a Growth round. …