Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and produce more for themselves, storing value for their own benefit. I play a different game. A game I call 'compounding impact.' How do you make a positive impact in the world?
The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.
If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.
I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.
When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.
VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?
The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.
We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.
Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.
Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.
It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur.
Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
As our culture redefines being a gamer, brand partners explore and wait eagerly on a new set of tools to better engage their potential clients.
Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events.
Steve Bannon was my right-hand man. He didn't like me to say it, but he was on my payroll.
I have a lot of people who want to work for me.
I played 'Mortal Kombat' competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.
