Silicon Valley billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya: would-be governor just for a moment
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Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya had hinted he might run against Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall.Mike Windle / Getty Images for Vanity Fair 2016
Until Wednesday, the flavor of the month on the California political scene was Chamath Palihapitiya, a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist who was getting plenty of Twitterverse attention for endorsing the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom and saying he might run to replace him.
Until Wednesday. When he said he wasn’t.
“Let’s be really honest. I’m not ready to do any of that,” the 44-year-old former Facebook executive and founder of Social Capital said on an episode of his “All In” podcast that posted Wednesday.
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December 30, 2020
ISLAMABAD: Former chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi has made a startling disclosure that $150 billion owned by Pakistani businessmen are stashed in foreign bank accounts, earning meagre profits because of lower interest rates.
“Pakistanis own $150 billion lying in foreign bank accounts and are earning peanuts in the wake of lower interest rates. Now the time has come in the wake of a changed scenario worldwide when these businessmen will have to think to bring back this huge money,” Zaidi said in a webinar organized by the Positive Media Communication on Tuesday.
Recalling his meeting with one of renowned businessmen where he mentioned those Pakistanis who had stashed massive money in dollars abroad in countries like Malta and others, he said now he could foresee that the time has come when they would be invited to these countries to inform them that their money was seized by the respective governments. He said he knew individu