Chamath Palihapitiya couldn’t wait to show off one of his startups. On a Friday afternoon in April, he headed from his office in Palo Alto over to Redwood Shores, Calif., a tract of suburban cul-de-sacs built on marshland by the San Francisco Bay.

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