Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

I think Apple is a productive cash machine.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

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
Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

Chamath Palihapitiya
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
Chamath Palihapitiya

My first job was at a Burger King.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

I was born in Sri Lanka.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

Not everybody is right all the time.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they gave my family protection. I did my best to pay that country back, and I think I did that.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

Facebook could have gone public whenever it wanted. We decided the right time was 2012. It could have easily been 2010 or 2014.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya
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
Chamath Palihapitiya

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.

Chamath Palihapitiya
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
Chamath Palihapitiya

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya

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

Chamath Palihapitiya
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
Chamath Palihapitiya

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