Chamath Palihapitiya

“I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.”

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

“I was born in Sri Lanka.”

“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.”

“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.”

“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.”

“VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business.”

“Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.”

“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.”