Ron Conway

“I'm not just investing in this founder for this company. I'm investing in this founder for life because he goes, I realized that the best founders start multiple companies.”

“The Ron Conway principle of how do you just act so benevolently that your reputation is the product you're actually building. You're not building a portfolio. You're building a reputation. The reputation builds the portfolio.”

“He gets the 250 K. So that's how Ron Conway gets in on this deal.”

“By the next morning, Ron had done it. We got an eight-figure contract with that company that led to a nine-figure contract, all because of this desperate email, and eventually our company got acquired for eight hundred million.”

“I only take meetings that come from my network. So he goes, I will get five pitches a day. So I see 30 a week. 30 deals come to my desk a week. Every single one is from a referral of a founder or investor that I know well that knows me and knows what to refer …”

“No matter what deal you're in, it is more costly to be out of Ron's network than it is to, you know, try to get, get one up. And because of that, he is ensured that Silicon Valley works.”

“And basically what he says is that when that dot-com bubble burst, 80% of our companies just went to zero.”

“Like Ron Conway's hit rate for SV Angel in, in one was unbelievable. He had like a multiple hundred X on SV Angel one.”