Risk and Discomfort By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read The way we balance [risk], is we put ourselves at risk. We’re the largest investors in our funds. 25 cents on every dollar, which is painful, but it forces us to make these important decisions about where we stand on these issues, morally. If we stand on the side of saying, “We came to this... More
Fact Pattern as Success By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read The goal is to now work the rest of my life and leave a great fact pattern for other people to copy. It’s the process now, that’s winning. There’s nothing numerical I care for. There’s no validation externally that I care for. I could not care less. What I care about is: is there a... More
Understanding Technology By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read The future of what we’re trying to build is something that says, “Wherever technology will either create positive disruption, or create some kind of negative implication, we want to understand.” The minute that you say that, two things happen. First, your team construction is totally different. There are no financial people at Social Capital. There... More
Patience By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read My 2045 ambition for the organization, as I see it right now. I would like us to employ at least 10 million people, through the businesses that we own. I would like our businesses to positively affect at least a quarter of the world’s population. I would like us to have made, cumulatively, about a... More
Vision By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read In 40 or 50 years, you’re talking two to three billion people. That’s a big number. I’d [also] like us to be a part of businesses that are employing at least 10 million. I’d like for us and our partners to have made a trillion dollars. All of these things seem crazy, but it gives... More
Reset By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read In these last 10 months, my dad passed away, one of my best friends passed away, and it even more amplified that drift. I was a little disengaged. Emotionally detached from this company I had founded, mostly because of these that were happening in my personal life. Yet at work, things were going so well... More
