49 Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

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

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.'

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

Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse.

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

Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty.

The point of Silicon Valley, at least when I moved here, was we're all trying to do stuff, and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things.

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.

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