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Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes
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Chamath Palihapitiya
American
Businessman
Born:
Sep 3
,
1976
Capital
Good
Money
People
World
You
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Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.
Chamath Palihapitiya
News
Noise
Smart
Job
Facts
Investor
Fiction
Separate
Your
Valuable companies take decades to build.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Valuable
Build
Take
Decades
Companies
Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Ego
He
Get
Influenced
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
People
About
Entrepreneurs
Feel
Like
Talk
Perks
Hear
Lot
Off
Just
Burn
Realize
Lower
Chopping
Profitability
Start
Need
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
Mom
Tremendous
Primary
House
She
Where
Dysfunctional
Resilience
Raised
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
You
People
Problem
Money
Care
Will
First
Build
Past
Pay
Out
About
Someone
Private
Goal
Fit
Get
Trying
Whether
Figure
Company
Zero
Actually
I think Apple is a productive cash machine.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Think
Machine
Cash
Productive
Apple
I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Wish
Invested
Had
Snapchat
Series
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Innovation
About
Repetitive
Being
Pattern
Company
Tech
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.
Chamath Palihapitiya
You
Immigration
Will
Sacrifice
Think
Everything
About
Put
Human
Literally
Place
Succeed
Capital
Realize
Need
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
Change
World
Wealth
Diabetes
Opportunity
Cancer
Problems
Immense
Would
Solved
Cascade
Countries
Climate
Climate Change
Go
Were
Substantive
After
Create
Across
Need
The government - they're completely useless.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Government
Useless
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Me
Business
Extremely
Apps
Misunderstood
Selling
Including
I was born in Sri Lanka.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Born
Lanka
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.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Truth
Good
Social Media
Citizen
Confuse
Every
Bad
Allow
Factual
Know
Because
Normal
Versus
Fixed
Sites
Social
Us
Good Actors
Popularity
Media
Actor
Right
Amplified
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Tracking
Tesla
Very
Closely
Apple
Early
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
Today
Truth
You
People
World
Money
Whatever
Confuse
Live
Believe
Easy
Truthful
Get
May
Where
Use
Popular
Popularity
Now
Amplify
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
You
Capitalism
Result
Just Be
Objective
Objectively
Beyond
None
Repair
Governance
Fix
Done
Going
May
Just
Us
Inherently
Reason
Numerical
One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Life
Money
One Of The Things
Entire
Entire Life
Known
Making
Making Money
Capability
Things
Innate
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
Facebook
Money
Thought
Ambition
Enormous
Table
Something
Equity
Goal
Left
Want
Bigger
Amount
Slave
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
Knowledge
People
Pay
Think
Marketing
Something
Excellent
Sales
Infrastructure
Convince
Less
Who
Using
Not everybody is right all the time.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Time
Everybody
Right
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.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Health
Mom
Old
Job
Nurse
High
Ministry
Civil
Civil Servant
Got
Years
Canada
Commission
Moved
Worked
Dad
Servant
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
People
Money
Value
Rich
Tolerance
Risk
Having
Poker
Because
Lot
Up
Grew
Poor
Rich People
Poor People
Much
Successful
Convinced
Used
Found
Fundamentally
Players
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.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Government
Good
Matter
Move On
Nothing
Down
Because
Move
Just
Happens
Us
Actually
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
Change
Matter
Power
Down
Market
Collapse
Would
Structures
Eminent
Vehicles
Becoming
Stock
Stock Market
Influence
Transcending
Capital
Companies
Now
Shut
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