venture capitalist

“The sort of similarity of what I saw in my colleagues and what I did is it's like trying to get at the forefront of cultural shifts, even if you don't know what they mean, just trying to see, okay, are these like these weird movements that are happening in soc…”

“To set a little context for how you could do well even if you weren't ambitious, there are 100 times as many venture capitalists now as there were then.”

“Our job as venture capitalists is not to see the future, but to see the present very clearly.”

“He said two words. Improved odds. That is the best, from a founder's perspective, that is the best description. It's like, if I take investment from you, as opposed to this other guy over here, this other girl over there, like, who is going to be, founders don…”

“By and large, having bumped into a lot of people in the businesses with venture capital financing, I would say the ordinary rule is that people in the business doing the work, they more or not, they hate the venture capitalists. They don't feel their partner t…”

“They are, at least on the diligence and investing side of the equation, making these calls in real time, and the very best of them only get it right, what, 20% of the time? At most? You know, 30% of the time?”

“The idea that a venture capitalist makes an investment in a company and they are not the controlling shareholder was blasphemous just 20 years ago.”