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If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty.
At some point, Apple will become much more aggressive and much more daring in taking their brand and capital to really reshaping markets.
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.
People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.
Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.
I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.
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 company before the entrepreneur.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.
The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.
You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.
I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.
Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.
The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.
I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.
Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.
Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
In software, it's easy to understand what people want, and it's hard to build. Internet stuff is super easy to build, but it's hard to know what people want.
One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.
In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.
I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything.
The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.