Great Quote by Joe Lonsdale

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

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

The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But…

— Dave McClure

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

— Peter Thiel

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

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we…

— Sabeer Bhatia

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

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

— Chamath Palihapitiya

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

— Brock Pierce

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

— Basil Peters

Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only to mentor…

— Joe Lonsdale