Jose Ferreira Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.”

“The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.”

“The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.”

“Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.”

“Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.”

“Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.”

“Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.”

“I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.”

“If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.”

“Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.”