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Backing a company is a serious business.
I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.
Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.
Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.
One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.
Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.
Palantir is the new wave of companies solving big problems for big industries.
One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.
Not everybody has to work on the big problems, but if nobody does, they don't get solved.
Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.
Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
I think I was really lucky to work as a little kid at PayPal, grew up in the Valley as a coder.
Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.
Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.
Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.
We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.
I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.
I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.
Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.
The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.
Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.
There will be trillions of dollars under Addepar. You will have tons of money and information flowing through it.
A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.
Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.
We want to inspire everyone to recognize the positive social impact they can have if they choose to become technologists.
A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.
We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.
I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.
I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.
Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.
Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.
Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.
If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.
Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.
The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.
The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.
Wealth is only ever actually created from the bottom-up, with free people employing their distinctly human creativity and finding ways to serve and employ others.
When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do more of the same.
In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.
There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.
Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.
My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit to look into state spending.
Savvy, competitive investors able to build, buy, and fix companies will continue to stimulate growth by allowing us to do more with less - the only way to create prosperity.