Chamath Palihapitiya

“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.”

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

“All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.”

“Not everybody is right all the time.”

“When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.”

“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.”

“I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.”

“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.”

“Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.”

“I think Apple is a productive cash machine.”

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

“I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.”

“Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“My first job was at a Burger King.”

“If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.”

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

“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.”