Skip to content
Chamath Archive
An archive of the best interviews with Chamath Palihapitiya
Menu
×

Category: Tools

GAAP for Startups

By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read

You may have heard this term, but when you’re a public company there’s something called GAAP financials? Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles, and that’s how you report numbers. Profit, loss, revenue… you know, all of this stuff. So there’s a set of rules that the industry uses to make sure that you can compare apples to... More

Expectations Analysis

By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read

The second outcome, was we looked back internally and every quarter we do this thing called an expectations analysis. We ask everyone at the firm to give a low, medium, and high expectation for every single company we’ve invested in. What’s interesting about that exercise is that you’re talking about a very diverse, eclectic, group... More

One Pager

By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read

Whenever we look at an investment now, we will not move forward in deep diligence until we have a one pager. It can literally only be a page. If you’ve ever tried to write a one pager on something complex, it’s really hard to capture saliently the few things that matter. At the top, we... More

Editor's Note

These are Chamath Palihapitiya's words. They are probably some of the best thoughts on VC, business, and life, but were scattered around the Internet. They live now in this archive.