Chamath Palihapitiya

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.

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.

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.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

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.

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

I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. 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.

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.

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

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

There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.

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