Dave McClure

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work. ”

I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it. ”

Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10. ”

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

It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between. ”

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

Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything. ”

Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat. ”

I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already. ”

Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate. ”