The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When you start a company, you become really emotionally involved in it. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I do think entrepreneurs need to be smart, but there's another scale I never evaluated myself on that is now the source… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is larger than profits. Once you wrap yourself up in a… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Most CEOs walk around the office like we own the place, without realizing that the place itself isn't worth owning: a business's… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that, the word… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your service. What… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too. I don't… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share
