We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Brock Pierce Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve been very blessed in my life.
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.
I only help the superheroes, I don’t help the villains.
I don’t care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.
I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it’s long days, long hours.
When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.
Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events.
I realized I was a gamer when I didn’t sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.
Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.
The Internet wasn’t useful until some basic infrastructure was built.
Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.
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.
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.
My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.
I built a supply chain of 400,000 people in China to play games professionally to mine digital currency.
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.
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.
I live life like it’s a role-playing game.
I don’t need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.
The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.
VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?
I obviously have been very involved in creating a number of tokens going all the way back to Mastercoin.
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.
The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.
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.
The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.
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.
Steve Bannon was my right-hand man. He didn’t like me to say it, but he was on my payroll.
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.
Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.
Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.
I’m here on this planet to live in service to humanity.
If you take the MY out of money, you’re left with ONE.
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.
