Michael Arrington Quotes

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.

I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

The better I get at investing in and helping companies, the result is more founders who are excited to work with me and more of my wonderful limited partners insisting I take piles of their loot to keep it all going.

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.

There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

I founded SkyBridge - an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street's next generation of Wall Street's entrepreneurs - in 2005.

Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let's go, go, go.

I like to spend money on investments.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.