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“There's plenty of companies that are pre-revenue for many years who can and should raise hundreds of millions of dollars because they're building a phenomenal new technology, and it's going to be a long time before they generate revenue.”

“Well, we want to be the biggest company in the entire agriculture industry, and in order to do that, that's hundreds of billions of dollars of market cap that we have to build, either as a private or a public company. So I think in the next five years, I would…”

“Whenever I hear talking to other entrepreneurs, oh, I might sell the business, or there'll be acquirers interested, I'm like, okay, well, you've Largely given up before you start.”

“A good team who's working towards something in a small market will never create something big because it's going to be limited by the size of the market, right?”

“If I ever went back to investing again, I would most definitely bet first on the team. I would absolutely focus all of my energy on who am I investing in, and do I believe that they can figure this out?”

“The highest IQ people sometimes, I would almost say outsmart themselves or outthink themselves. They think in terms of arbitrage or hedging their bets or this or that, or they've got 10 things going on. They're not focused on the task at hand.”

“A lot of times the reason that people management or others will panic when something bad happens or not be able to deal with the tough environment that a startup may go through or face is because they're worried about the financial side or they're worried abou…”

“I actually think the time to pour the fuel on the fire is when there's unanimity or certainty. Into what it is you're trying to become and that you feel you're on the path to get there.”

“By and large, you're better off having the benefit of experience. I mean, if I think about where I was in terms of the experience as I've had when I started FBN versus going back 12, 1314, 15 years to when I was first started a business, I is night and day in …”

“Came up with this concept of information transparency because it's so lacking right now in the ag market.”

“Discovered that farmers would actually share information if they could believe that it would benefit them in return.”

“There's a big gap between the best company in a sector and the best entrepreneur and the best team and really the next five. And any big business and any big idea is going to have multiple entrants, multiple people in and around it. But you really Need to bet …”

“If somebody can't build a team, if they can't attract talent, that's a clear sign that somebody's probably not capable.”

“Before Kleiner, I probably thought of it maybe a little more like a small business person, you know, where equity is obviously very precious and everything, but you're more worried about dilution. You're worried to raise some money and I, Take some dilution an…”

“One hundred ninety four million dollars we've raised in the last three, four years. That, that to me is like a drop in the bucket of what it probably will ultimately take to become a huge company.”