98 Quotes by Joe Lonsdale

I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

Addepar not only helps improve private wealth management workflows so that advisors can do a better job at what they currently do, but it also helps build a data-driven and integrated view on top of the many important financial decisions within a client portfolio.

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

Backing a company is a serious business.

Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.