he is best known for supercharging facebook from 50 million users to 750 million users.he tech growth legend started on the unlikely path in the country gripped with civil war. joining me today, the incendiary investor and founder of the social capital partnership, chamath palihapitiya. thank you for joining us. how do you feel about that word "incendiary?" chamath: i love that word actually. it's like, at least people will remember you. emily: you were born in sri lanka. what was the state of the country at the time? chamath: i was born in 1976. the civil war broke out in the early 1980's between the hindu minority and the buddhist majority. both my parents are buddhists. my dad was in the civil service. my mom was a nurse. my dad was able to insinuate himself to get posted to the sri lankan high commission in canada. i think we were six years old when myself, my sister, and my parents immigrated. emily: had the war started by then? chamath: it had started. my dad proudly talks about how he was a communist organizer. when he spoke out about that, there was a huge pushba