Dashlane

“Now, suddenly you're talking about a company that's going to go from a year ago, we were eight people to today. We are 250 in a year. We'll be 450.”

“When you think about some of the very large public or non-public companies like, you know, ride sharing and office space sharing, these are tech-enabled companies for which technology is somewhat important, but that structurally have very low gross margins bec…”

“You know, we had just raised a thirty million round of debt with no plan on taking equity, and in the meeting, Jim made me see the opportunity I was potentially missing by not considering an investment from Sequoia, and he convinced me in that meeting to rethi…”

“I'd say the second advice is to prepare the board materials a long time in advance. Send to, send them to your board members a long time in advance. We do that 10 days before our boards, and have individual discussions with each of them in advance of the meeti…”

“For us, you know, we need to build a multi-billion dollar company for this to make any sense, and when you look at the history of companies, not many people succeed doing that, so that's the first part.”

“And for us, it's a challenging shift because we've been frugal over the years, and now we have to relearn how we do things. We have to learn how to take a level of risk we're not used to taking. All the ingredients are there, the market, the leadership team, t…”

“The way we transact, the way we authenticate is as broken today as it was 25 or 30 years ago when the internet started.”

“With VCs, because your board is not your boss. You are running the company and you're running the board and you have to really understand that because you become effective at working with your board and your VCs. The moment you understand that the board is the…”