Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. (ii) Patent Office (USPTO), could create 2.5mm new jobs over the next three years by contributing to startup formation. Source: New York Times Opinion article, Inventing Our Way Out of Joblessness by Hank Nothaft and Paul Michel, August 5, 2010 ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. You felt invincible. You were minted.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

Cofounder 28

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. You felt invincible. You were minted.

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