Brock Pierce

“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.”

“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone.”

“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.”

“I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.”

“Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.”

“I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.”

“Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.”

“I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.”

“I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.”

“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.”

“The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.”

“I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.”

“I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.”

“A unicorn is a community that's positively impacted the lives of a billion people.”

“I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.”

“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.”

“I live life like it's a role-playing game.”

“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.”

“The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.”

“Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.”