We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So when push comes to shove, there actually aren't that many great businesses that… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
At some point, Apple will become much more aggressive and much more daring in taking their brand and capital to really reshaping markets. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
What you should be in a rush for isn't necessarily the immediate monetary return, but it's to know that this equation existing between an… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
