With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try and get that clearly out.
I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.
There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.
The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.
I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it.
I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up.
There's a mathematical way to get success.
I did pick Lyft, but Lyft didn't seem amazing.
Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.
I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.
Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.
Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything.
'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.
I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.
