The Minutes of Chamath Palihapitiya on spacs https://minutesof.com/chamath-palihapitiya/on/spacs/ Everything Chamath Palihapitiya has said on SPACs: 6 verbatim quotes between March 2026 and July 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording… en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:14:10 +0000 Palihapitiya defends SPAC companies by citing tens of billions raised and millions of customers served. https://minutesof.com/q/325a5563-9cd7-461c-841f-29eb49df88a3/ https://minutesof.com/q/325a5563-9cd7-461c-841f-29eb49df88a3/ “The answer is tens billions of dollars. How many clients or patients or customers do they serve? The answer is millions to tens of millions. How have they grown revenues and traction since that happened?” — CNBC Television Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:46 +0000 spacs Palihapitiya argues banks structure IPO liquidity to embed gains for their best clients, not company needs. https://minutesof.com/q/1223e4ca-be20-45ad-a1a8-6a6db4db5a39/ https://minutesof.com/q/1223e4ca-be20-45ad-a1a8-6a6db4db5a39/ “The SPAC was I didn't like the idea that two or three banks sat as the gatekeeper between companies that should be funded and exist and their ability to actually serve customers.” — CNBC Television Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:46 +0000 spacs Palihapitiya says his biggest SPAC mistake was talking about them on CNBC and Twitter. https://minutesof.com/q/0e12f68e-2e0c-4db3-922a-c120d20aeee5/ https://minutesof.com/q/0e12f68e-2e0c-4db3-922a-c120d20aeee5/ “The thing that I would have changed is I would have had nary a comment on Twitter. I would have not come on CNBC and talked about them at all.” — CNBC Television Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:46 +0000 spacs Palihapitiya proposes posting hundreds of millions himself to create turnkey IPOs with all his risk. https://minutesof.com/q/c5118f65-601d-49c6-8ac3-9345b4734e34/ https://minutesof.com/q/c5118f65-601d-49c6-8ac3-9345b4734e34/ “But I've talked to Paul Atkins about this. I'll post the hundreds of millions of dollars. Now it's a turnkey IPO. It's all my risk. If I find something I like, I'll just underwrite it.” — CNBC Television Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:46 +0000 spacs Palihapitiya cites Michael Dell going public at $85M valuation as example of democratized access to operating https://minutesof.com/q/234f4aae-0e15-40a5-8dd4-14694e58dcfc/ https://minutesof.com/q/234f4aae-0e15-40a5-8dd4-14694e58dcfc/ “What that allowed is any man, woman, and child, man or woman, any American, most important to actually access a share of Michael Dell's operating genius.” — Axios Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:28:53 +0000 spacs Palihapitiya says he lost $4 to $5 billion during the SPAC phase. https://minutesof.com/q/bdcd2df4-daf4-4c07-b0c1-91c7006c0840/ https://minutesof.com/q/bdcd2df4-daf4-4c07-b0c1-91c7006c0840/ “Right before the SPAC phase. The SPAC phase, I torched like 4 or $5,000,000,000. That was brutal. But before that, I had another drawdown.” — Nikhil Kamath Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:06 +0000 spacs