One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money. — Chamath Palihapitiya Entire life Copy Share Image
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple. — Chamath Palihapitiya Apple 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
We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense… — Chamath Palihapitiya Change 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 Facts Copy Share Image
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years… — Chamath Palihapitiya Dad Copy Share Image
When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance. — Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook 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
Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to… — Chamath Palihapitiya Believe 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 think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus… — Chamath Palihapitiya Business 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
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
As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very… — Chamath Palihapitiya Business 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 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
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation. — Chamath Palihapitiya Being 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
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
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is… — Chamath Palihapitiya Good Copy Share Image
You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level. — Chamath Palihapitiya Basic Copy Share Image