I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So,… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have… — 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
