Chris Sacca

You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.

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Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.

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Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

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When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.

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There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

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If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.

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What's success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No, money for the most part turns people into jerks.

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I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.

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Make tweets effortless to enjoy, make it easier for all to participate, and make each of us on Twitter feel heard and…

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In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the…

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I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's…

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Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of…

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The Sharks step right on each other's questions, and if I ever did that in Silicon Valley, I would be considered a…

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One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers…

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Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement…

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I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors,…

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A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So,…

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I find talented, driven, boundlessly ambitious people and help them solve problems that will hopefully improve the lives of millions. Sometimes this…

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I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about…

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2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying…

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There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that…

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The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise…

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The day after Donald Trump was elected, Chinese business leaders, including the heads of Baidu, stood up and gave a speech saying,…

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They are desperate for surrogates to get behind Trump, and they can't find anyone who has actually had genuine success who is…

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I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

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When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.

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Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be…

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I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue…

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Shark Tank's participatory. There's so many people on Twitter for this show, and they all feel like they're in the tank, making…

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I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It…

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I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make…

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In social settings, under the guise of joking, being collegial, flirting, or having a good time, I undoubtedly caused some women to…

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Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list…

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There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of…

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One of the things that struck me is how authentic 'Shark Tank' is. I don't know how more real it can be.…

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The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the…

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I really do see the sharks evolving their perspective. In the early days of the show, if you brough them an app,…

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Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and…

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I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I…

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How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their…

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