Silicon Valley

“We have more partners per dollars in our fund than any firm in Silicon Valley, and that means that no, no general partner at Trinity's on more than eight or nine boards, and that, so that means we do the work for our companies, and we don't rely on other peopl…”

“We have a, one of the largest data science teams in Silicon Valley. You have 65 PhDs working on this.”

“I actually think maybe being in New York is an advantage at this point because the noise levels are reduced, right?”

“I don't expect to see very many consumer success stories coming from Silicon Valley right now, until we have a major correction.”

“So if you hire somebody on race and gender through the urban talent department, instead of through the normal talent department, through the fucking side door instead of through the front door, because you can't see the talent, then you're never going to be go…”

“One of the reasons I left Silicon Valley is I couldn't deal with this kind of thing.”

“It's not like being in the valley where people are mercenaries. You know, I think the average career tenure is, you know, 1214 months.”

“My Prediction, ah, is that the bottleneck will become on the idea side of things, which is counterintuitive because the Silicon Valley dogma is like, ideas don't matter, only execution. And maybe in the future, it'll be more like, execution doesn't matter, onl…”

“Silicon Valley really has this problem in not understanding that other industries are hard. Like, the airline business is hard. They're not just idiots. It's difficult.”

“And still today, if we look at where, like, researchers for pool sites sit, they sit predominantly, you know, 95% outside of Silicon Valley.”