David Sze

There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building. ”

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them. ”

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008. ”

I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns. ”

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment. ”

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership. ”

I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often. ”