venture capitalist

“The hardest thing I think that Sequoia is going to find in this new iteration is at some point, somebody's reputation will be on the line for judging public equities. And it's still not clear to me that people who live and breathe venture can context switch we…”

“If a SaaS company can say add ten million of net new AR in a year and burn 20, I think VCs will fund that all day long, even in a recession.”

“The vast majority of conversations that we had were about whether or not it was even ethically okay to ever build a company that would build weapons.”

“In the absence of regular regulatory changes that protect this money. You need to have a financially sophisticated actor on the board. And again, I go back to that should be your venture capitalist. And that person should not have conflicts of interest with th…”

“The amount of capex that we will need to make this a reality is so gigantic, and I think you guys are honest about that. That unfortunately, you eventually replace the venture capitalists with tens or hundreds or even a few billion dollars with the sovereign w…”

“I just don't see VCs having the temperament and the wherewithal to fund hundreds of billions of dollars into multiple companies to do that.”

“Contrary to popular belief from the VCs at the time, the robots were the moat.”

“Venture capitalists are terrified to invest money in anything other than these frontier models and things like SpaceX or military modernization.”

“Venture capitalists don't think about the sell part. They think about the buy part.”