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

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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. "

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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