Jon Oringer Quotes

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

New York is the most exhilarating city when you're young. It's a different culture, definitely. I really came to love it.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

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

I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.

I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.

I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

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?

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.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

I've spoken to people in Silicon Valley, and many times they have said to me, 'X storyline, or that thing that happened in your show - pretty much verbatim has happened to me.' And it's either identical or similar enough to be scary.

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 are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.

There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

L.A. can be a little bit daunting. It is great, but it is a very cutthroat area and industry to be in, so London feels a bit more homely for me.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.