The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily.… — 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 become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability… — 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
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
