Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that that really is clearly explicit and factual. Get that out in front early. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "