David Sze quotes and sayings
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.
David Sze quotes
- The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
- When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
- When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.
- College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.
- I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.
- I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.
- I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.
- One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.
- The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.
- The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.