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If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.
As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.
I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.
Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.
When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.
If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.
Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.