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“We really don't like the sort of like one for one model companies. Right. So like the Tom's shoe or like for every shoe we sell, we're going to donate shoes to a country in the third world because then the good you're doing always has to be defended. When you'…”

“I believe that animal agriculture will be eliminated from the face of the earth within the next hundred years.”

“We think it's actually one of the most wrongheaded and probably dangerous doctrines in the history of the world, and I know it sounds a little Strange to say that an economic doctrine is very dangerous, but we think it's allowed a lot of businesses to pursue p…”

“So almost every single deep tech company that we've invested in has a clear path to growing off of equity for maybe three rounds, and then growing off of project or debt financing for the rest of their life.”

“I think the biggest opportunity in investing right now might just be a fund that has a 15 to twenty-year life cycle.”

“When we talked to investors, we found that they all basically fell into one of two buckets. Either you had the people who really cared about the why, or, you know, what are traditionally called impact investors, but who knew basically nothing about technology …”

“I believe you can. And so, we get this question a lot, and one of, I think, the analogies that I like to give is, at some point, people thought the transition to the cloud was going to be a really big deal, and that cloud-based companies would have very real a…”

“There have been a number of changes over the last five years that actually allow you to get from idea to prototype product on the same amount of money you would need to raise for a seed round if you're raising for a SaaS company, right?”

“Given our fund's mission, people are willing to help us do that more so than they would be with a traditional fund.”

“I think there's just such incredible talent in Silicon Valley, and I think it is largely going to waste. I think that way too many incredibly talented people are working on incredibly trivial things, and I see it around me a lot where people are going through …”

“The Ethelus device cost 250 bucks, and each test Costs five dollars, and it gives you results in minutes, and it works.”

“Net Impact did a study of MBA students and found that 83% would take a 15% pay cut to work for a company that had positive societal or environmental ends.”

“Our sort of like very high level filters are we want founders that are interested in building billion dollar businesses that have positive impact. Then we want to see ourselves a path to a billion dollars in revenue. And then we want to see ourselves the path …”

“Deloitte, for example, did a study of 7700 millennials across 29 countries. And 87% of the millennials they surveyed said that the success of a business should be measured in terms of more than just its financial performance.”

“Even if you look at something early stage like Y Combinator, right, they have invested way more attention and resources into attracting and helping synthetic biology and biotech companies than they did four years ago. Four years ago, they weren't doing it at a…”