Nasdaq

“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”

“There's 4000 fewer publicly listed companies on the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange than there were 20 years ago.”

“The company had raised a hundred million at 500 pre at the height of the bubble. We literally closed the financing right at the beginning of April, 2000, I think, 1516 days before the Nasdaq started to slide.”

“My personal trading portfolio is like boring index funds, like S and P 500 in NASDAQ, the Dow, that kind of stuff. I've owned Apple for many years, split-adjusted down to, like, two dollars, so I've done quite well on Apple over the years.”

“We took the company public on Nasdaq in 2007. I was the CFO, so I led the charge there. We did that with half of the capital we had raised in 2000, still in the bank, and we had a very profitable business.”

“We have been responsible somewhere around six and a half trillion of partnering opportunity, meaning the companies with which we partner have generated six and a half trillion of market cap. About a quarter of the NASDAQ, God knows how much of the NYSE in Hong…”

“Sequoia-backed companies, accounting for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value.”

“The company's valuation Is lower today than it was when Dara took over. And even if you account for the macro environment, the Nasdaq's still up 50%, he's down 50%.”

“You don't want to be a sub-billion dollar company on the NASDAQ. You'll be a rounding error for people. But from, I don't know, five hundred million up to a few billion, you can list very comfortably in Brazil.”

“About 25, 30% of companies in the Nasdaq today didn't exist 23 or 30 years ago. If you look at Ivo Vest by Brazil and Mexico, there's still incumbents that existed a hundred years ago. So the opportunity for disruption, a lot of these markets exist today.”

“I just find it much easier for me and my personality to I think generate alpha on the private side. I mean, the public side is always becoming more competitive. You think, if you think venture is competitive, try making alpha versus you know, the NASDAQ, right…”

“The returns need to just look like about the NASDAQ. It just needs to be, it just needs to be roughly in line with the NASDAQ for them to continue to raise. And by the way, that's true for all of venture. That's true for all of venture, which again is why, lik…”

“Capital market, you know, and this is the thing that is sort of forgotten in, for most of the first few weeks of January, we were the largest equity capital market in the world by capital raised, ahead of NASDAQ.”

“The percentage of the company's free float that is turning over in a given day is higher on the FTSE 100 than it is on the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ.”

“You can do NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange virtually exactly the same, except with the New York Stock Exchange, you get the ring the bell. That's why we picked New York Stock Exchange.”

“Just put the rest into NASDAQ, and you're gonna make more than most VC funds anyway”