Quotes from Dave McClure

I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.

The reason we invest globally is because we think that's where a lot of the growth is happening: around the world.

I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

I bet on a lot of stuff that's low-priced, and most of it's going to go back down to zero. But some of it's going to go up.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

I actually find it's more interesting to play in the niches and find ways to apply technology to relatively straightforward problems.

We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that that really is clearly explicit and factual. Get that out in front early.

If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try and get that clearly out.

I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

A bubble in early-stage funding means maybe there's $300 million at work when maybe there should be $150, as opposed to a bubble in late-stage funding which means there's $20 billion at work when there should be $3.

There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.