Dan Levitan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.”

“I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.”

“Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.”

“Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.”

“We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.”

“We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.”

“As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.”

“I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.”

“I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.”

“In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.”