Gil Penchina Quotes

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

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.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

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

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

Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

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

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

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.'

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

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.

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.