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" My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds. "
Dave McClure
Focus
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Role
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" There's a mathematical way to get success. "
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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. "
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Them
Work
Face
" With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people. "
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People
Power
Responsibility
" 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. "
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" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "
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Companies
Survive
Tend
" 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. "
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Conservative
Find
" 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. "
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Technology
People
Rules
" Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional. "
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Most
Fair
Internet
" I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning. "
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Say
Must
Learning
" 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. "
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Technology
Building
Trying
" My personal failures aside, 500 has long supported a diverse community of entrepreneurs including women, minorities, LGTBQ, international, and other overlooked founders. "
Dave McClure
Long
Community
Women
" I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments. "
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Lot
Prefer
Say
" I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems. "
Dave McClure
Technology
Problems
Play
" 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. "
Dave McClure
People
Think
Food
" 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. "
Dave McClure
Reality
Team
Bad
" 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. "
Dave McClure
Time
Year
Africa
" 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. "
Dave McClure
Know
Doing
Angry
" Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything. "
Dave McClure
Almost
Anything
Cheaper
" 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. "
Dave McClure
Things
Fashion
Who
" 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. "
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People
Wake Up
Beginning
" Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person. "
Dave McClure
Everybody
Crazy
Person
" 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. "
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Maybe
Bubble
Work
" 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. "
Dave McClure
Back
Zero
Up
" I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it. "
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Will
Change
Working
" I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky. "
Dave McClure
People
Smart
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. "
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Wrong
Better
Behavior
" Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10. "
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Think
Education
Interesting
" 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. "
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Early
You
Talk
" The reason we invest globally is because we think that's where a lot of the growth is happening: around the world. "
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World
Think
Reason
" We have to support the well-being of society. "
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Support
Well-Being
Society