Chris Sacca Quotes
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Live Twitter can be built right into the main Twitter app, but it should certainly have its own tab so we can concentrate on the live experience free of distraction.
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Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
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There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.
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Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.
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I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe.
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I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.
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In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
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Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
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How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
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2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.
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My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.
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Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.
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The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
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For most people, Twitter is too hard to use.
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I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.
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I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.
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I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.
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I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!
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I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.
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Make tweets effortless to enjoy, make it easier for all to participate, and make each of us on Twitter feel heard and valuable.
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When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.
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I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I own more than I should because I'm an idiot.
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Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.
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The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise to the top in Silicon Valley, those are antithetical to a lot of the principles that the Trump administration apparently stands for.