Index Ventures

“We tend to invest in businesses that produce data as opposed to collect data, but there are businesses that collect data for sure, and as long as they're compliant with the law and are not doing egregious stuff around it, we will tend to fund them.”

“We invested in Hortonworks, The company did go public. We made five times our money on the investment”

“I think the industry at large, and our firm included in this, has not done a good job at all Funding against diversity or including diversity in our own firms?”

“The next day I called Elasticsearch. We ended up investing in the company a month later, and then it went public.”

“Now that we have eight partners at Index, two are women now, and I will say they find more women entrepreneurs.”

“My firm has probably about 20% of its CEOs that are women.”

“So by being in consumer companies, you learn how infrastructural tools get used. And you often find the good ones, and so that's super relevant, and oftentimes whether they're using good or bad tools can also be an indicator of whether they're going to be a su…”

“And I believe, and there's a lot of very smart people that are deploying capital in this category, specifically open source and infrastructure, but my belief, and I'm biased obviously, is that they are the top two or, you know, two of the top five, let's say.”

“So at a couple of years, you know, ago, Mike, Mike was like, oh, you should definitely think about index has this thing called they make funds for people basically like individual funds. So I think like, for example, Dylan at Figma also has one of these funds …”