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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 are trying to build large, lasting businesses. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Companies that tend to survive are the rebels. "

" 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 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. "