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" Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person. "

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

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

" While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep. "

" There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already. "

" 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. "

" With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people. "

" We are trying to build large, lasting businesses. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try and get that clearly out. "

" We have to support the well-being of society. "

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

" I did pick Lyft, but Lyft didn't seem amazing. "

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

" 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. "

" My personal failures aside, 500 has long supported a diverse community of entrepreneurs including women, minorities, LGTBQ, international, and other overlooked founders. "

" 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. "