Andrew Yang Quotes

Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

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.

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

My dream is to have a small company in France.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

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