My personal failures aside, 500 has long supported a diverse community of entrepreneurs including women, minorities, LGTBQ, international, and other overlooked founders. Dave McClure Read Quote
My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds. Dave McClure Read Quote
I’m ashamed I didn’t change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations… and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team. Dave McClure Read Quote
I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I’d probably say I have to keep learning. Dave McClure Read Quote
There’s been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It’s not to say that you can’t create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley. Dave McClure Read Quote
Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it’s not going to work. Dave McClure Read Quote
Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard. Dave McClure Read Quote
Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well. Dave McClure Read Quote
Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional. Dave McClure Read Quote