“We have a global membership network that sits on top of this global physical platform that we have the opportunity to further monetize.”— Michael Gross, axios.com
“Venture Capitalists are just hedge fund managers who can quote the Tibetan Book Of The Dead.”— Adam R. Perlman, Willie Reale, Taylor Mason, Asia Kate Dillon, imdb.com
“The investors, mostly from China, accounted for 40% of the $154 billion in global venture financing last year — the most ever — up from under 5% a decade ago.”— Yasufumi Saito, Phred Dvorak, wsj.com
“The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.”— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, amazon.com
“We became the first company to introduce a high-quality credit card available to people without a credit score, with no fees, low interest rates and high credit limits — significantly better than other credit cards currently available to people just starting out in credit.”— Jason Gross, medium.com
“We kind of branded expression search. No one even thought about searching expression, it wasn’t a thing.’”— Alex Chung, businessinsider.com
“Anyone with a huge network of engaged users who are searching for things has an opportunity to build a business on top of that.”— David Rosenberg, businessinsider.com
“When I hear about a company once, I often ignore it, when I hear about it twice, I pay attention, when I hear about it for the third time, I take a meeting.”— Bill Kaiser, avc.com