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 Difficult 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
When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a… — Chamath Palihapitiya Ambition Copy Share Image
The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an… — Chamath Palihapitiya Business 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
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
Facebook could have gone public whenever it wanted. We decided the right time was 2012. It could have easily been 2010 or 2014. — Chamath Palihapitiya Could Copy Share Image
Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor. — Chamath Palihapitiya Betting Copy Share Image
I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because… — Chamath Palihapitiya Betray 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
There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best. — Chamath Palihapitiya Always Copy Share Image
Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one… — Chamath Palihapitiya Glass Copy Share Image
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies… — Chamath Palihapitiya Change Copy Share Image
