Chamath Palihapitiya

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. ”

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

Not everybody is right all the time. ”

Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them. ”

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. ”

All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors. ”

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

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company. ”

I think Apple is a productive cash machine. ”