Ryan Holmes Quotes

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

At the end of the day, what makes Silicon Valley work is technology and the outcome of making money. Those two things have to be healthy. It has to matter a lot more than who is the celebrity and who is famous and who goes to the best parties.

You know what makes me want to cry? I think, whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

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