Business Quote by Gil Penchina

VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

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

— Joe Lonsdale

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

— Chamath Palihapitiya

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where…

— Josh Kopelman

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's…

— Tony Hawk

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— Basil Peters

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

— Bill Gurley

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

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

— Marc Andreessen

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a…

— Douglas Leone