Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor. — Chamath Palihapitiya Betting Copy Share Image
You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level. — Chamath Palihapitiya Basic Copy Share Image
When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance. — Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook Copy Share Image
I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber. — Chamath Palihapitiya I wish Copy Share Image
I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in. — Chamath Palihapitiya Ability Copy Share Image
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple. — Chamath Palihapitiya Apple Copy Share Image
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation. — Chamath Palihapitiya Being Copy Share Image
It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees. — Chamath Palihapitiya Ceo Copy Share Image
Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise. — Chamath Palihapitiya Customer Copy Share Image
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really… — Chamath Palihapitiya Big Copy Share Image
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me. — Chamath Palihapitiya Business Copy Share Image
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult… — Chamath Palihapitiya Costs 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 I think 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 Capable 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Aggressive Copy Share Image
None of us are going to fix governance; it may just be beyond repair. But you can fix capitalism. And the reason… — Chamath Palihapitiya Capitalism 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 Business 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Good Copy Share Image
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want… — Chamath Palihapitiya Children Copy Share Image
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 Money Copy Share Image
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has… — Chamath Palihapitiya Bad 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya More Copy Share Image
Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not… — Chamath Palihapitiya Consumer 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 Children 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 Business 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Believe 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 Apathy Copy Share Image
The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it… — Chamath Palihapitiya Ambition Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues… — Chamath Palihapitiya Ability Copy Share Image
If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if… — Chamath Palihapitiya Advice 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 Ability Copy Share Image
VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business. — Chamath Palihapitiya Always Copy Share Image
Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market. — Chamath Palihapitiya Bitcoin Copy Share Image
