Palo Alto

“I think because of coronavirus, there is now enough of an impetus that it won't be obvious that you should go to San Francisco or Palo Alto anymore, and because of that, I think it will change permanently, and I think more will move to the cloud.”

“I bought a two-door Honda Civic, and I drove out to Silicon Valley, and I slept on the streets of Palo Alto for about three months.”

“If there was one, it really happened inside of a local macaroon store in Palo Alto where the founding team met a store manager who had to turn down hundreds of deliveries. She literally showed us a notebook with payment information of customers and how she had…”

“We picked a street in Palo Alto and I said, give it all away for free. I said, I don't care. Don't charge anything. I just want to see if we can get a hundred percent of the restaurants on the street. And what was interesting was they came back and we literall…”

“So when I invested, I think there were five of them in a one room office in Palo Alto, and now we're an organization of a few thousand people.”

“There was three people out of 254 people in the company that, when we sold the company, that could live in San Francisco because the company was based in Palo Alto. There was no extra time to commute between Palo Alto and San Francisco.”

“To be honest, we have a beautiful office in Palo Alto. I only go two days a week, so I represent, acknowledge it's hypocritical.”

“When I started at Palo Alto, we were less than two percent market share in the entire revenue of cybersecurity. We're closing in on eight or nine percent right now, right?”