India, March 9 -- Canadian-American investor Chamath Palihapitiya said that net worth charts, billionaire rankings and follower counts are "an illusion", and that all of it was "just a construct."

Speaking on the People by WTF podcast with Nikhil Kamath, Palihapitiya, a former senior executive at Facebook, said that he works on two different internal systems.

One is hyper-rational and competitive, wired to win; the other is detached and questioning the premise of the game itself, he said on the podcast.

Palihapitiya helped scale Facebook during its hyper-growth years as a senior executive and later became an early backer of companies such as Tesla.

He went on to talk about billionaire rankings, net worth charts, and follower counts, s...