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Chris Sacca

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 12, 1975

I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.

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How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

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I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.

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George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

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If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.

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Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

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I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.

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It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

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One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers in the world right now are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram.

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There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of discrimination, or two, maybe you don't like that women make 73 cents on the dollar compared to men.

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Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

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There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

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For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

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Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

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When I posted the 8,500 words on what Twitter should be, I wanted to make clear this wasn't a vision statement for the future. What was so frustrating about it is that's what it should've been already.

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I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

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People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

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Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.

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I think there wouldn't be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.

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All broadcasts on Periscope need to be archived for playback permanently, unless the broadcaster chooses to delete the recording. So many treasured moments have been shared on Periscope only to vanish a day later.

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