Quotes from Brock Pierce

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

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

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.

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

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

Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.

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

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.

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

I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.

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

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

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

The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.

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.

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

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

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.