The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company… — 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
