Quotes About Innovation

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.

A lot of times when you're an investor, it's very easy to lean back and say, 'Well, people should come to me in Silicon Valley.' YC has the opposite opinion.

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.

I'm coming to Silicon Valley to turn up!

More than stock prices or product launches, Silicon Valley's legacy will be defined by whether tech leaders step up to contribute to the larger American experiment.

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'

There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their own success.

Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.

Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.

It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur.

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.

We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.

Silicon Valley has always been in my blood.

At the end of the day, what makes Silicon Valley work is technology and the outcome of making money. Those two things have to be healthy. It has to matter a lot more than who is the celebrity and who is famous and who goes to the best parties.

Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.

When I got to the Bay Area, everyone was talking about 'Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley,' so I just wanted to go and learn more about it.