Chamath Palihapitiya’s Quotes

Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. Palihapitiya was an early senior executive at Facebook, joining the company in 2007 and leaving in 2011. He is a minority stakeholder and board member of the Golden State Warriors. Palihapitiya is a minority stakeholder and board member of the Golden State Warriors.

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"I think the reality is that it’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"But it’s to know that this equation existing between an employee and a company is being honoured. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"If the investors themselves are not sophisticated if they are not putting a lot of their own money to work. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"It’s never been a better time to work at a startup. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"What’s the equation? I’m going to give you the most precious thing that I have – my time and my reputation. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"If they themselves don’t understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"You work at a really intellectually free environment, you get to work with people who are like-minded, it’s very energetic. It’s wonderful. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"That’s what the employee says. And the company says I’m going to take your time and your reputation. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Then they’re basically worthless. They’re not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what’s called a J curve. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Direct it at things that we believe collectively have a huge impact opportunity to do something extremely positive. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"You start out at zero, you’re not making any money, you’re not losing any money. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"And that positivity will get measured in impact and also an economic upside. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"So that is, unfortunately, the cycle we’re in and we have to break the cycle. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"If you’re trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we’ve been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"You need to grow through profitability. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"So when push comes to shove, there actually aren’t that many great businesses that can go public. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Zuck is unemotional. He doesn’t get influenced by ego. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Because I think if you’re going to thrive as a public company, it presupposes that you make more money than you spend. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"But then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a company that spends less than it makes. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"And what I mean by very quickly, is that window of time should be in that 6 to 8-year time frame. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"It’s kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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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"

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"One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"I think it’s just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"And the reason is that if you build your business model correctly it’s almost unavoidable. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mind share and win at an even larger scale. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"What you should be in a rush for isn’t necessarily the immediate monetary return. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"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. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"The good part about that is that you’re unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"But we’re also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual’s impacts are overestimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"That’s the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"That’s an amazing positive. The negative is they’re coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they’ve ever had. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"You have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"So if you’re not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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"That’s why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything. — Chamath Palihapitiya"

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