FirstMark Capital

“And it's really just a way not to increase a personal brand or a firm brand, but accelerate the matching process in this grand scheme of things.”

“And it's probably been the best time to invest here that I've seen ever.”

“Discord, which we think is going to continue to be a very large company in chat and community formation, originally around games, but now much broader.”

“If you're doing multiple non-consensus things and you're able to execute, that's how you create the Grand Slam home runs, the Shopify's, the Pinterest's, the Riot Games of the world.”

“Most of what people call AI we consider not AI.”

“I find saying, I don't know, an incredibly empowering thing to say, very disarming, where if people want your opinion or trying to push you for something, just saying, I don't know, gives them no way to really push anymore, and also invites them into a convers…”

“Riot brought League of Legends, which again is a multi-billion dollar per year franchise today, to market with 6.7 million dollars of capital.”

“So I think two thirds of all unicorns in the world have a member of the guild and most companies in New York, but there's companies in China and there's companies in Europe.”

“We look at our pro rata as our option to fund. So we don't view it as an obligation and therefore There's a negative signaling around that or some obligation that we have that unfairly biases our opportunity fund.”

“Because we aligned with the way the entrepreneur was thinking, we decided to do a seed investment in Pinterest.”

“So all three of those things were non-consensus and why we decided to do the first round of Riot Games.”

“There's thousands of companies that are going to need capital between now and the end of 24. The investors at almost every stage have generally been hurt by the macroeconomic environment. The purse strings are pretty tight. But the amount of companies that may…”

“We're looking at some things in AI. We've been generally under impressed by some of those things recently.”

“At the same time, I realized distress was oftentimes a knife fight over a shrinking pie.”

“So if you get involved in the earliest stages in capital efficient businesses that you know really well in a geography that you think you could have some leadership in, that's a fine enough point and a focused enough strategy that you're able to raise some mon…”

“In the fourth quarter of 21, we were budgeting for 22, with still a consensus in the broader market that the top three things that matter for your company in twenty-twenty-two were going to be growth, growth, and growth. And we went back in January of 22 acros…”