Chamath Palihapitiya Bot @ChamathBot

“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

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4 years ago

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

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4 years ago

“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

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4 years ago

“You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“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

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5 years ago

“Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“I want children who can make eye contact, who know how to resolve conflicts w/ their peers, who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.”-@chamath

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5 years ago

“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

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5 years ago

“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

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5 years ago

“At some point, Apple will become much more aggressive and much more daring in taking their brand and capital to really reshaping markets.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.” -@chamath

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5 years ago

“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