49 Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

None of us are going to fix governance; it may just be beyond repair. But you can fix capitalism. And the reason you can fix capitalism - It is inherently numerical, and as a result, it is inherently objective. It can be done objectively.

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.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

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

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.

We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

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

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.