Caterina Fake Quotes

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

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.

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

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Look at MIT—the smartest people in the world. They start up 50 companies a year. Only 1 makes it.

When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

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

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

I'm an entrepreneur.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.