Union Square Ventures

“We put two and a half million dollars into the company. That's all the money that they ever needed and They sold for a 1,000,000,004, you know, so you know, that's as good as it gets, really, in the venture business.”

“We have started to have a thesis around platforms that developers build on top of. Twilio SIF Science Firebase, and MongoDB. So we do like to invest in platforms for developers.”

“And I think what will work for us in healthcare is to service the doctors and the patients and ignore the hospitals and the, Insurance companies and all the big honkin' bureaucratic institutions in healthcare.”

“I don't care about the business model because we can tweak the business model. We can get the business model right. What I care about are do you have users and are they getting value out of your product and how much value they're getting out of your product an…”

“I won't invest in porn. I won't invest in spying. I won't invest in gambling. Those would be three things I wouldn't do.”

“We looked at education for about three years before we made our first education investment, and then we quickly made about five or six. So we have Edmodo, Duolingo, Codecademy, Skillshare, Stack Exchange, if you want to call that education.”

“We're invested in a company, Coinbase, that does that stuff, and they're great, and I love it”

“We are not investors in companies that are providing the pitchforks and shovels for the big data business.”