The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a comp…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and …

- Chamath Palihapitiya

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending mo…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a re…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

What you should be in a rush for isn't necessarily the immediate monetary return, but it's to know that this equation existing between an employee an…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

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. So…

- Chamath Palihapitiya

The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But w…

- Chamath Palihapitiya