Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes
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 more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
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There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
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My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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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 more than you make and you still don't have a line of sight for that J curve. That is the most important contingency. Because otherwise you are betraying that equation to your cofounders, to your investors, to your employees and to your customers.
