Time Quote by 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

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

— 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

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 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

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

Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to…

— Vinod Khosla

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

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

— John Doerr

Even the greatest companies encounter problems or otherwise fall out of favour.

— Whitney Tilson

“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