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Chamath Palihapitiya: The #1 Secret to Becoming Rich
youtube.comChamath on the importance of slow compounding:
“The faster you build it, that is the half life: it will get destroyed in the same amount of time.”
Things tend to come and go, tip to one side and then the other, tide out and back in, grow and then rot, get created and destroyed, at the same speed.
Was Chatting With a Well-Known Founder Yesterday About the "Founder...
Sahil invested in Tesla shares when it had a $2 billion valuation just because he had heard of Elon Musk from PayPal and the tech community. Trust yourself when you’re ahead of the curve.
Sahil Lavingia • Sahil Lavingia — From Web 2.1 to Web 3 (EP.87)
Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself [The Knowledge Project Ep. #94] - Farnam Street
fs.blogVCs focus more on thought leadership than ever before, because their access to capital is less valuable than their social capital. Dave Portnoy can become one of the biggest names in finance, raise tens of millions for businesses hurt by the pandemic and move stock prices without having billions under management or a long investing track record let... See more
Tal Shachar • Creators Eating the World
Why write in public? “The ability for smart, useful observations to get into the hands of people with fewer ideas but lots of capital has never been better. You can build both a reputation and balance sheet this way.”
-Chamath
A corollary to this is that as governance has decayed and the focus of most VCs is on uprounds and markups, there has been a meaningful decay in strategy at many startups.