Being Quote by Roelof Botha

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

— Bruce Rauner

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more…

— Lynn Jurich

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and…

— Aneel Bhusri

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full…

— Chris Sacca

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including…

— Alfred Lin

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

— Sam Hinkie

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

— Josh Kopelman

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

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

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for…

— Michael Arrington

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on…

— Naveen Jain

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's…

— Kevin Kinsella