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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The reason we invest globally is because we think that's where a lot of the growth is happening: around the world. "

" Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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