5 Best Stock Picks and Ideas from Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya’s Portfolio

2. Coolan

Coolan is a California-based crowd-sourced predictive data analytics firm that was founded in 2013 and purchased by salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) in 2016. Coolan used big data analytics and machine learning to help businesses make decisions about data and hardware solutions. Salesforce used the technology marketed by Coolan to improve its own infrastructure before integrating the firm into the parent company. 

Slaesforce has a market cap of more than $203 billion and posted a revenue of more than $21 billion in January 2021. Since the purchase of software firm Slack, the shares of salesforce have been surging. Earlier this week, Bank of America named salesforce as one of the top software stocks. The company features 2nd on our list of top 10 best stock picks,  investments, and portfolio of billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya.