Jim Goetz Quotes

Jim Goetz is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur who is a partner with Sequoia Capital. Goetz is known for his focus on mobile and enterprise startups, including successful investments in AdMob, WhatsApp, and GitHub. In 2017, Goetz announced he was stepping back from his leadership duties with Sequoia, but continues to invest and represent the firm on company boards.

Also known as Entrepreneur

I spend about half my time in mobile and half my time on enterprise.

Jim Goetz
- Time
It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Jim Goetz

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Jim Goetz
- Up
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Jim Goetz
- Life
- Up
- Poetry
If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

Jim Goetz
All of WhatsApp's growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to try the service.

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- Friends
- Happy
- Growth
At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

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- Present
I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.

Jim Goetz
- Great

WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

Jim Goetz
- Experience
- Focus
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Jim Goetz
- Truth
- Past
- Terror