Glenn Kelman Quotes

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

Get big or get out!

Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

I ran a profitable boostrapped company for five years, then raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz.

Come year-end, there will be more capital deployed in newspace in 2016 than 2015. I see that trend continuing for the foreseeable future.

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.