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Brock Pierce
American
Businessman
Born:
Nov 14
,
1980
Blockchain
Internet
Money
People
World
You
Related authors:
Bill Gates
Henry Ford
Jim Rohn
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Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth.
Brock Pierce
World
Smart
Blockchain
Revolution
Every
Those
Focused
Admire
Steam
Driving
Driving Force
Concept
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Crypto
Force
Understand
Person
Then
Engine
Reason
Electricity
Fourth
Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.
Brock Pierce
Me
Book
Open
Open Book
Knows
Anyone
Who
I call the blockchain 'the Internet of value' and 'the Internet of trust.' Because everything becomes trustless. It's a big distributed ledger. Think of it like an Excel file that's being maintained and updated and managed by millions of computers around the world.
Brock Pierce
Trust
World
Internet
Value
Big
Blockchain
Think
Everything
Distributed
Excel
Computers
Maintained
Like
Call
Because
Around
Becomes
Updated
Being
File
Millions
The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.
Brock Pierce
Internet
Some
Until
Built
Infrastructure
Useful
Basic
The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.
Brock Pierce
Mistakes
Building
Making Mistakes
Top
Run
Risk
Compromised
Never
Protocol
Making
Been
Businesses
Applications
The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.
Brock Pierce
Change
Internet
Blockchain
Everything
More
Than
Going
Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.
Brock Pierce
Blockchain
Possible
India
Some
Point
Investment
Global
Make
Very
Mandate
Capital
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
Brock Pierce
Only
Allowed
Investors
Venture
Venture Capital
Historically
Capital
Elite
Funds
A billionaire is someone who can positively impact a billion lives.
Brock Pierce
Positively
Impact
Someone
Billion
Who
Billionaire
Lives
I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.
Brock Pierce
Myself
People
Measurement
Care
Positively
Impacted
About
How
Measure
Many
Unit
Lives
When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.
Brock Pierce
Saying
You
People
Bitcoin
Bad People
Internet
Will
Bad Things
First
Changed
Everything
Bad
Only
Point
Had
Like
Just
Newspapers
Used
Things
What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?
Brock Pierce
Broken
Confidence
Financial
Better
Old
Long
System
Financial System
Bad
Record
Instill
Like
Industry
How
Isolated
Than
Going
Happen
Happened
Plague
Incident
Ever
Play
The real problem with Puerto Rico is that it keeps losing its best and brightest. It keeps losing its leaders and its future leaders due to a lack of opportunity.
Brock Pierce
Future
Best
Problem
Opportunity
Losing
Leaders
Real
Due
Real Problem
Lack
Rico
Brightest
Keeps
Puerto
Puerto Rico
A unicorn is a community that's positively impacted the lives of a billion people.
Brock Pierce
People
Community
Positively
Impacted
Billion
Lives
When you have to start over from scratch, you can do it very differently than if you have this big thing that's kinda been building on top of itself for ages and ages.
Brock Pierce
You
You Can Do It
Big
Building
Top
Kinda
Over
Been
Itself
Very
Than
Scratch
Big Thing
Ages
Differently
Thing
Start
I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.
Brock Pierce
Work
You
Entrepreneur
Long
Guess
Long Hours
Main
Days
Hours
Realize
Things
It's often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team and the critical functions that the team needs to be successful. Storytelling is normally not on the list.
Brock Pierce
Needs
People
Lost
Thinking
Startups
Valley
Critical
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Importance
Most
Normally
List
Often
Storytelling
Successful
Team
Assemble
Functions
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.
Brock Pierce
Best
Business
Building
Blockchain
Software
Project
Scale
Similar
Network
Entrepreneurs
Open
Had
Open Source
New
New Business
Also
How
Source
Off
Linux
Models
Interests
Means
Pains
Users
Growing
Competing
It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it'll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.
Brock Pierce
Good
Bitcoin
Will
Long
Though
Possible
Some
Potentially
Point
Good Thing
Long-Term
Term
Question
Short
Fork
Process
Whether
Short-Term
Thing
Disruptive
Security tokens are going to give birth to a quadrillion dollar market. This is because we will see the tokenization of the world's fiat money, debt market, real estate, equities, and art.
Brock Pierce
Art
World
Money
Real Estate
Will
Birth
Market
Security
See
Give
Because
Real
Dollar
Debt
Going
Fiat
Estate
AngelList Syndicates are perfectly aligned with Bitcoin's ideology. They democratize the system so everyone has access to high value dealflow; it's the power of the people.
Brock Pierce
People
Bitcoin
Value
Power
Ideology
Everyone
Aligned
System
High
Perfectly
Access
We're here to take our skills - our superpowers - and figure out how to help Puerto Rico, the Earth and the people.
Brock Pierce
People
Our
Earth
Out
Superpowers
Take
How
Skills
Rico
Figure
Help
Puerto
Here
Puerto Rico
The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.
Brock Pierce
Internet
Blockchain
Think
Way
Right Way
Entire
About
Replace
Going
Right
Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He's a hammer. And when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He's very sure and very smart. Very driven, very patriotic. He's not most of the things that people say.
Brock Pierce
You
Man
People
Smart
Seven
Everything
Say
People Say
Driven
He
Nail
Like
Most
Steve
Looks
Sure
Hammer
Years
Very
Patriotic
Things
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.
Brock Pierce
Become
Recognize
Cities
Angeles
Entrepreneurial
Most
Because
Always
How
Los
Los Angeles
Been
America
Literally
Hard
Hardwired
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.
Brock Pierce
Entrepreneur
Language
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Area
Share
Industry
Same
Common
Common Language
Hollywood
Jargon
Use
Creator
Two
Coincidence
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