- Nov 07, 2020
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- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.
- Changing The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.
- Decades
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- Nov 07, 2020
Valuable companies take decades to build.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.
- Nov 07, 2020
Not everybody is right all the time.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Sri Lanka.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was at a Burger King.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.
- Chopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: 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. That's the zero to one problem.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Apple is a productive cash machine.
- Governance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.
- Sacrifice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.
- Nov 07, 2020
The government - they're completely useless.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020