Jawed Karim Quotes

The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

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 don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

The greatest companies in the world were started and are run by fanatics.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

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?

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

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.

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

In 2010 - after raising capital to launch Forerunner Ventures - we aimed to invest in companies targeting digitally savvy customers looking to be delighted by experiences and founded by visionary leaders committed to leveraging data and quantifying the results.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

I've had a lot of help... from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists. They've helped me out a ton.

I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.