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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I want to invest in a functional product that people are using. "

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

" 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. "