David Cohen Quotes

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.

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

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'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

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.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

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

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

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.

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say 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.