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Gordon: No successful startup investor completely ignores valuation
“I don't know any successful investor in companies who invest that way.”
Gordon: Fred Wilson was crucial early at Zynga despite dialing in
“Fred Wilson is kind of the crown prince of New York venture capital and a great blogger. He was extremely helpful in the early days of Zynga, even though he was mostly dialed in. He's just such a crisp, sharp thinker.”
Gordon: USV led edtech discourse years before making edtech investments
“And then Albert Wenger, he created the meme of hacking education, which I'm a fanboy of. And that was probably in oh nine or oh 10. He convened leading thinkers. And interestingly enough, they didn't invest in any learning and Companies for several years after…”
Gordon: Kleiner Perkins requires a single passionate partner to champion every deal
“And, you know, but for us, there's got to be one person who pounds the table.”
Gordon: Human-powered robotics will be a spectacularly big industry
“And in general, I think human powered robotics is going to be spectacularly big.”
Gordon: Amazon AWS, Kindle, and Prime were shaped in key board meetings
“I remember the board meeting on Amazon where we first talked About what become Amazon Web Services, AWS. I remember the first time, I remember a series of meetings that led to the presentation of Kindle. I remember a series of meetings that led to the presenta…”