The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.

Chamath Palihapitiya

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

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

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.

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

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level.

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

VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya