Dave McClure

“There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.”

“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.”

“Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.”

“I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.”

“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.”

“I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.”

“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.”

“Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.”