71 Quotes by Aileen Lee

I played with different words like 'home run,' 'megahit,' and they just all sounded kind of 'blah.' So I put in 'unicorn' because they are - these are very rare companies in the sense that there are thousands of startups in tech every year, and only a handful will wind up becoming a unicorn company. They're really rare.

When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.

The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.

There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.