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" Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard. "

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" I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it. "

" The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment. "

" My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds. "

" There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money. "

" I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team. "

" I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments. "

" It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between. "

" Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization. "

" I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other. "

" I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics. "

" I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong. "

" There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York. "

" A bubble in early-stage funding means maybe there's $300 million at work when maybe there should be $150, as opposed to a bubble in late-stage funding which means there's $20 billion at work when there should be $3. "

" Most firms do two investments a year. They may talk to between 50 and 100 and do a couple, whereas we're talking to thousands and doing several hundred. "

" I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow. "

" Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional. "

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

" Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10. "

" I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems. "

" I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning. "

" We think that there's a lot of opportunities in helping improve finding food, delivering food, ordering systems, notifications system, and its a very frequent purchase item for a lot of people. "

" I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky. "

" Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate. "

" There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley. "

" I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up. "

" I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children. "

" Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work. "

" There's a mathematical way to get success. "

" Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem. "

" Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing. "