Quotes About Growth

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

Unlike a normal venture fund, we never stop raising capital. We can always absorb new capital on the platform and into the next deal as long as we feel it won't distort the allocation and the pricing.

Any new venture, you gonna have some bumps in the road.

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

You can hit the proverbial roof at certain areas in the industry unless you venture out. And I never really set out in my career to stay in one place. I wanted to go out and try new things. Luckily, I've had that opportunity.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture.

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'

Kauffman Fellows is not necessarily for people just entering the venture industry but for experienced VCs looking to accelerate their growth. The program is centered around established innovation leaders - if you are looking to grow and become a better investor, you should think about doing this program.

We wanted Glossier to have an excellent customer experience and reach as many of you as possible from day one, so we went with venture - the stuff fast-growth, tech-enabled companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are made of.

The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

For growth, I need to be challenged and excited about the project. I need to venture out into unknown territories.

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.