My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there. — 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 like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things. The idea that there's an obligation to have that thing happen… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
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 to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s.… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
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 conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
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 employee and a company is being honored. What's the equation? I'm going to give you my most precious thing that I have - my time and my reputation. That's what the employee says. And the company… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
