Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
The point of Silicon Valley, at least when I moved here, was we're all trying to do stuff, and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things.
I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.
That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.
Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube.
I'm a tech-head. I've been a tech-head since '84, man.
I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.
It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.
What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.
It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
I'm more of the sneaker-wearing, computer geek type.
I've always been a techie kind of person.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
