Brock Pierce 80 Too Good To Be True Quotes
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Brock Pierce 80 Too Good To Be True Quotes
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.
— Brock Pierce
I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.
— Brock Pierce
Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.
— Brock Pierce
The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.
— Brock Pierce
The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.
— Brock Pierce
The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
Being able to borrow against one's crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market.
— Brock Pierce
Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.
— Brock Pierce
Has the Internet changed our lives? Have mobile phones changed our lives? The blockchain is something that is that transformative.
— Brock Pierce
Steve Bannon was my right-hand man. He didn't like me to say it, but he was on my payroll.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
A billionaire is someone who can positively impact a billion lives.
— Brock Pierce
Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.
— Brock Pierce
I'm normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they're used to getting an automatic three hours alone.
— Brock Pierce
I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.
— Brock Pierce
I'm here on this planet to live in service to humanity.
— Brock Pierce
Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
I don't care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.
— Brock Pierce
When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.
— Brock Pierce
The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.
— Brock Pierce
I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
— Brock Pierce
I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.
— Brock Pierce
The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.
— Brock Pierce
Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.
— Brock Pierce
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
— Brock Pierce
Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.
— Brock Pierce
I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn't tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.
— Brock Pierce
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?
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
A unicorn is a community that's positively impacted the lives of a billion people.
— Brock Pierce
The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a way that it's done with the right intention.
— Brock Pierce
When you have to start over from scratch, you can do it very differently than if you have this big thing that's kinda been building on top of itself for ages and ages.
— Brock Pierce
I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
I built a supply chain of 400,000 people in China to play games professionally to mine digital currency.
— Brock Pierce
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.
— Brock Pierce
Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.
— Brock Pierce
VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.
— Brock Pierce
We're here to take our skills - our superpowers - and figure out how to help Puerto Rico, the Earth and the people.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
— Brock Pierce
I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
As a gamer I know that my least favorite ad types are offer walls.
— Brock Pierce
Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events.
— Brock Pierce
I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.
— Brock Pierce
I have a lot of people who want to work for me.
— Brock Pierce
I played 'Mortal Kombat' competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.
— Brock Pierce
My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.
— Brock Pierce
Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and produce more for themselves, storing value for their own benefit. I play a different game. A game I call 'compounding impact.' How do you make a positive impact in the world?
— Brock Pierce
My name is Brock and it also means 'broke.' I'm going for broke - I intend to give everything away of everything I have over time.
— Brock Pierce
I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.
— Brock Pierce
Two-thirds of the world's population is unbanked or underbanked. Imagine if you had all your bank accounts shut down today, if you had all your credit cards shut off today, Paypal, Venmo, etc. What would life be like? And that's a problem that most of the world faces if you're in Latin America, Africa or South East Asia.
— Brock Pierce
I've been very blessed in my life.
— Brock Pierce
I did commit to giving my first billion away.
— Brock Pierce
I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
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!
— Brock Pierce
I obviously have been very involved in creating a number of tokens going all the way back to Mastercoin.
— Brock Pierce
I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.
— Brock Pierce
I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.
— Brock Pierce
No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.
— Brock Pierce
The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
I'm going to keep innovating.
— Brock Pierce
I live life like it's a role-playing game.
— Brock Pierce
I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.
— Brock Pierce
I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.
— Brock Pierce
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.
— Brock Pierce
Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.
— Brock Pierce
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