Chris Sacca Quotes

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

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

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

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

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.

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

While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.

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

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

'Shark Tank' is fun, but it's all business. We use our own money, and the competition between the sharks is fierce. More importantly, it's an opportunity to invest in businesses that are being watched and considered by millions of people every time it's shown.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

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.'

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.

After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

Not all new ventures are at the same stage of maturity.

I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.

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.

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.