Silicon Quote by Bill Gurley Download Open image “Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.” — Bill Gurley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Silicon Silicon valley Valleys Way
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect. — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything that has been built in Silicon Valley is something that a lot of places are trying to mimic, and rightfully so. There's… — Bobby Wagner Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're an investor, it's very easy to lean back and say, 'Well, people should come to me in Silicon… — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
From the outside, there's a perception Silicon Valley is full of really young, geeky guys. The reality is there are lots of different types… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face. — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public.… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them.… — Eric Lefkofsky Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom.… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. — Jean-Louis Gassee Copy Share Image
