Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

Chamath Palihapitiya

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 3, 1976

If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Not everybody is right all the time.

Chamath Palihapitiya

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Valuable companies take decades to build.

Chamath Palihapitiya

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

Chamath Palihapitiya

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.

Chamath Palihapitiya

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

Chamath Palihapitiya

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

Chamath Palihapitiya

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

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When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.

Chamath Palihapitiya

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

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Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.

Chamath Palihapitiya

The government - they're completely useless.

Chamath Palihapitiya

At some point, Apple will become much more aggressive and much more daring in taking their brand and capital to really reshaping markets.

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I think Apple is a productive cash machine.

Chamath Palihapitiya

There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

Chamath Palihapitiya