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When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

~David Sze

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There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

~David Sze

Topics: Building Company Deal Discipline Every Exam Final Flow Four Get Great Great Deal Need Outcomes Planning Scary Scary Thing Six Thing Venture Years You

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The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

~David Sze

Topics: Companies Go Great Important Important Thing Investing Making Most Most Important Thing Options Private Public Stay The Most Important Then Thing Us Want Whether

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I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

~David Sze

Topics: Build Companies Different Different Stages Help Important Important Thing Know Look Most Most Important Thing Opportunity Partners Stages The Most Important Thing Think You I Think

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We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.

~David Sze

Topics: Entrepreneur Fine Fork Know Listen Makes Much Predicting Saying See Sense Too Too Much Try Tuning Understand Whether

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For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

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Topics: Best Bubble Focused Market Perspective Really Staying Us Whether

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When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

~David Sze

Topics: Business Companies Four Going Had Public Started Three Two Were Years

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I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

~David Sze

Topics: Believe Both Combination Come Consumer Create Enterprise Mobile Networking Opportunities Side Social Still Super Technologies Think Where Will I Think

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I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.

~David Sze

Topics: Billion Companies Growth Happening Hitting Longer Lot More Much Often Private Side Staying Still Think While I Think

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A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

~David Sze

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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