Zach Woods Quotes

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

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

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.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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.

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

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

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.

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?

What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.

Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.

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

I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.