Greylock

“You know, there are some great payments companies out there, Stripe, Square, et cetera, that I talked to very early and couldn't bring myself to kind of lean in to do, despite world-class great entrepreneurs, note to self, mistake, right? Because I was going, …”

“What you want is some people going, you guys are out of your minds, and some people going, I see it. You want a polarized reaction.”

“He invested in LinkedIn. He invested in Facebook. He invested in Pandora. He personally returned two and a half billion dollars to Greylock's funds.”

“I believe that the first 150 hires will make or break your business. They are your cultural co-founders, and it's up to you, the founder, to get everyone right.”

“That being said, the investment criteria that I apply is, would I give this person the money and walk away and say, Five years from now, how did it go? Because it's about the entrepreneur's journey, not yours, not I, as an entrepreneur, can make this successfu…”

“We then went pitch Greylock on Kayak, and Greylock turned us down”

“The worst thing is you launch a product and no one cares or notices. And if you had sales reps complain or customers file bugs against it, then two things. One, you're releasing while you're so embarrassed, a la your role, and B, people only complain when they…”

“What you want is some people going, you guys are out of your minds, and some people going, I see it. You want a polarized reaction.”

“So, like, I'm part of the reason why Greylock didn't invest in Magic Leap and other things because I go, look, this is really amazing technology, but I just don't see it coming together as the new tech platform yet.”