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Slow Compounding

By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read

Jeff Bezos realized slow compounding. My little theory about company value creation: The faster you build it, that is the half-life, it will get destroyed in the same amount of time. So when you think of a lot of social businesses, that’s played out. Does it take 8–10 years to build a really great consumer... More

Faith and Struggle

By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read

We made fundamental mistakes in the execution of [Better]. It is a business that people love, and want. Unfortunately, we could not get it funded. We poured $10 million into this thing. We signed deals with all these payers, we had thousands of subs, but it’s crickets chirping when we were raising capital. We were... More

Re-Investing

By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read

It’s way better to be long-term greedy than short-term greedy. When you’re sitting on top of a venture firm and you can take the bulk of the economics, the ability to not do so, and rather instead invest your capital, is being long-term greedy. It’s about rewarding and honoring the platform that allowed you to... 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.