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- Compromising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up.
- Mathematical
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a mathematical way to get success.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did pick Lyft, but Lyft didn't seem amazing.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.
- Nov 07, 2020
I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.
- Nov 07, 2020
The reason we invest globally is because we think that's where a lot of the growth is happening: around the world.
- Fair Amount
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most firms do two investments a year. They may talk to between 50 and 100 and do a couple, whereas we're talking to thousands and doing several hundred.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bubble in early-stage funding means maybe there's $300 million at work when maybe there should be $150, as opposed to a bubble in late-stage funding which means there's $20 billion at work when there should be $3.
- Big Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think that there's a lot of opportunities in helping improve finding food, delivering food, ordering systems, notifications system, and its a very frequent purchase item for a lot of people.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to support the well-being of society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.
- Nov 07, 2020