Adi Godrej Quotes

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.

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

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

We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.

It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.