Dylan Taylor Quotes

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

I'm building a large company.

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Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.

You see this swirl of ideas and interaction of different players. Those interactions are helping to increase the pace of commercial space activity. We are bringing the pace of Silicon Valley to the space program.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.