Top 50 Brock Pierce Quotes

Puerto Ricans are so well educated, they’re so capable, they’re so competent, but due to a lack of opportunity, when you graduate from college, you leave. Puerto Rico’s number one export is human beings; Puerto Ricans!

What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?

I realized I was a gamer when I didn’t sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.

The Internet wasn’t useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

It’s not a coincidence these two industry areas – Silicon Valley and Hollywood – use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur.

As a gamer I know that my least favorite ad types are offer walls.

No one will use the new Internet if it’s slow, costs money and doesn’t scale.

When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.

I don’t care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.

If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn’t play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that’s more fun.

I call the blockchain ‘the Internet of value’ and ‘the Internet of trust.’ Because everything becomes trustless. It’s a big distributed ledger. Think of it like an Excel file that’s being maintained and updated and managed by millions of computers around the world.

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He’s a hammer. And when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He’s very sure and very smart. Very driven, very patriotic. He’s not most of the things that people say.

A unicorn is a community that’s positively impacted the lives of a billion people.

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.

It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it’ll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it’s long days, long hours.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

AngelList Syndicates are perfectly aligned with Bitcoin’s ideology. They democratize the system so everyone has access to high value dealflow; it’s the power of the people.

Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.

From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We’ve had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.

I’m pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Security tokens are going to give birth to a quadrillion dollar market. This is because we will see the tokenization of the world’s fiat money, debt market, real estate, equities, and art.

Los Angeles has always been one of America’s most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, ‘entpreneurism’ has become.

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man. He didn’t like me to say it, but he was on my payroll.

Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.

Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.

If you take the MY out of money, you’re left with ONE.

I have a lot of people who want to work for me.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone.

I don’t need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

I’ve been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.

Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

I’ve been very blessed in my life.

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

I obviously have been very involved in creating a number of tokens going all the way back to Mastercoin.

When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.

Has the Internet changed our lives? Have mobile phones changed our lives? The blockchain is something that is that transformative.

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

We’re going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.

As our culture redefines being a gamer, brand partners explore and wait eagerly on a new set of tools to better engage their potential clients.

It’s often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team and the critical functions that the team needs to be successful. Storytelling is normally not on the list.

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

The real problem with Puerto Rico is that it keeps losing its best and brightest. It keeps losing its leaders and its future leaders due to a lack of opportunity.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.