Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation. — Chamath Palihapitiya Being Copy Share Image
VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in. — Chamath Palihapitiya Ability Copy Share Image
When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance. — Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook Copy Share Image
You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level. — 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Customer 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
There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best. — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a… — Chamath Palihapitiya Immigration 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
One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money. — 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Breadwinner 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
Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to… — Chamath Palihapitiya 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
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
I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time… — Chamath Palihapitiya Business 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… — Chamath Palihapitiya Making money 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'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee,… — Chamath Palihapitiya 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
I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because… — Chamath Palihapitiya 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
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
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 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
Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor. — Chamath Palihapitiya Betting 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 Copy Share Image
