venture capital partner

“The cop-out of every GP and every partner is always the, well, I love the deal, but I couldn't get my partners. No, that's actually a lie. They didn't have the conviction. They, they're using that for optionality for later, right?”

“If my wife and I needed to go run off for the weekend and handle some terrible emergency and leave my three daughters with this person just for the weekend without a word said, would I even think twice about it? And if the answer is I'd have to think twice, th…”

“To be a partner in a venture capital firm, it's very easy, frankly, to lack integrity because there are no points of demarcation, and you only learn about your fellow partners In very sporadic bursts over very, very long periods of time, largely when it comes …”

“I think the best investor you can have for your company is somebody who's on the rising arc of their career. You want a Peter Fenton when he's 35, not 45. You want, not, not going to be ageist, but you want somebody before they've had their first IPO, and you …”

“Sometimes it can be that I'm doing great and I am not getting the reward I need. Sometimes it can be I'm doing great and there is no fricking reward because everyone else has lost all the money. So no matter how hard I work, In the next five years, I'm just di…”