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Some companies are worth paying for up front.
My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.
I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.
I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.
You can't get into the trap of paying for customer acquisition.
There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.
I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.
Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.
Women are going to be a huge force in developing Web and mobile companies.
The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.
Super early-stage companies have a village that form around them for support.
I appreciate the sacrifices my dad made. I went to a great public high school.
Most VC firms are looking to bring in women because of the great consumer cycle.
I work with tiny companies, so I don't really live in unicorn world, to be honest.
Male founders who come across as Type B are more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.
There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.
Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce.
There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.
Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.
Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.
In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant.
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.
Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.
If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.
There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.
You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.
I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.
We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.
If you're a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you.
History suggests the 2010s will give rise to a super-unicorn or two that reflect the key tech wave of the decade, the mobile web.
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.
I think, from a woman's perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different.
I'm a first-born child of a Chinese immigrant family, I grew up on the East Coast. And I have to admit, I did not grow up around technology.
I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.
Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies.
Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web.
What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?
Sequoia is a firm that a lot of people across tech and the Valley look to, and I think they're setting an important example in adding new diversity to their team.
I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.
I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.
From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'
Immigrants play a huge role in the founding and value creation of today's tech companies. We wonder how much more value could be created if it were easier to get a work visa.
What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.
When companies are private, founders can share more about their future dreams with investors; report less; and the shares are illiquid, constraining short-term changes in valuation.
Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.
It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.