Challenges Quote by Kevin Systrom

“The tech startup scene, for all its pretensions of transparency, principled innovation, and a counterculture renouncement of pressed shirts and staid social convention, is…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

— Mitch Kapor

Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through…

— Alexis Ohanian

What I've always loved to do is build a brand that's so cool that you want to wear their T-shirt.

— Lee Clow

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

— Fred Foster

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you…

— Christopher Poole

People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge…

— Daniel Lyons

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out…

— Peter Levine

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive…

— Lynn Jurich

Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.

— Michael Seibel

One of the spaces I am passionate about is tech.

— Quincy Brown

I love Silicon Valley, but there is a dominant voice of, 'Tech is cool. Tech is geeky. Tech is a guy with a hoodie.'

— Fei-Fei Li