Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as… — Chamath Palihapitiya 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 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
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me. — Chamath Palihapitiya Business 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
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
There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best. — Chamath Palihapitiya 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Customer 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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
