One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.
The government - they're completely useless.
Valuable companies take decades to build.
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.
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.
You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.
I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.
When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.
Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them.
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.
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.
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.
At some point, Apple will become much more aggressive and much more daring in taking their brand and capital to really reshaping markets.
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.
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.
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.
