SV Angel’s Ron Conway
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"Our very first angel investment I ever made was a company called Natural Language Incorporated, Berkeley, California. Natural language sounds like AI. My first investment ever."
"The three of us with the founders of Ask Jeeves built that company together and it was so much fun."
"Cloudflare. That company had all kinds of problems in the early days. I helped that company because they were part of the ecosystem."
"The founder of Zoom, Eric Yuan, accosted me in a parking lot long time ago. He said, 'You sat in a parking lot and gave me a whole bunch of advice at the beginning of my career.'"
"The OpenAI coup when Sam was asked to leave was a good example. I had conviction that the founder had been mistreated and we were going to make that right."
"Also, Napster, we were the first investors in Napster. And so, we got involved in SOPA PIPA when they tried to outlaw media generated by the internet on the web."
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"Our very first angel investment I ever made was a company called Natural Language Incorporated, Berkeley, California. Natural language sounds like AI. My first investment ever."
"The three of us with the founders of Ask Jeeves built that company together and it was so much fun."
"We have formed a very close partnership with UCSF in San Francisco, one of the best medical centers west of the Mississippi. We know every department head."
"Cloudflare. That company had all kinds of problems in the early days. I helped that company because they were part of the ecosystem."
"The founder of Zoom, Eric Yuan, accosted me in a parking lot long time ago. He said, 'You sat in a parking lot and gave me a whole bunch of advice at the beginning of my career.'"
"The OpenAI coup when Sam was asked to leave was a good example. I had conviction that the founder had been mistreated and we were going to make that right."
"Silicon Valley Bank crisis which hit the day of our founders summit three years ago was definitely the most consequential project I've ever worked on"
"Also, Napster, we were the first investors in Napster. And so, we got involved in SOPA PIPA when they tried to outlaw media generated by the internet on the web."
"I started work at National Semiconductor in the Santa Clara Valley when most of Santa Clara Valley was fruit orchards"
"Don Valentine the founder of Sequoia Capital came on the board, was the only investor, came on the road show with us"
"We went up to Microsoft and Bill Gates already was all over AI and he wanted the team. So we brought the team up."
"Netscape was Mission Central. Netscape's the one that allowed you access to all of this corpus of information on the web."
"Jobs started the PC, the only place he had to go to find executives was the semiconductor companies. So he went and got Mike Marlet to be the chairman and he got Mike Scott to be the president of Apple."
"We ended up investing in some of the defining companies like Google, Twitter, Meta"
"Watching Jack Dorsey go through at Twitter resurrected Square. It's like the best thing that you could ever witness."
"You got Yahoo and Ask Jeeves and Lycos. There were 10 search companies. Something must be going on in search."
"You got Yahoo and Ask Jeeves and Lycos. There were 10 search companies. Something must be going on in search."