Challenges Quote by Dave McClure

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

— Joe Lonsdale

“VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies”

— Peter Thiel

The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a…

— Steve Jurvetson

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

“As VCs invest more and more money in each company, they have to wait longer and longer before they can exit.”

— Basil Peters

VC has always been this high-touch, in-your-face-type business.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized,…

— Brock Pierce

In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.

— Joe Lonsdale

“This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire…

— Peter Thiel

“Indeed, the recurrent critiques of the lack of diversity of Silicon Valley's VC sector and the companies that it backs can be seen as…

— Jonathan Haskel

It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been…

— Terry Gilliam

This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are…

— Sarah Lacy