Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

Innovation is a necessity.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

Research the leaders in fields related to yours, synthesize their findings, and see how you can apply their hard-won wisdom to your work. Stand on their shoulders, and then make a leap into new territory that is distinctly yours.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

The luxury industry is being radically reshaped by technology-driven innovation.