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We need to make sure that as you think about guard rails you think about rules of the road you air on the side of allowing new companies to start and scale and don't do things that end up entrenching…

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Aug 2024

I worry that AI because of sort of the as you said the sort of the table stakes and the need for data and so forth could result in big Tech getting bigger and you've seen that in the market there's…

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Aug 2024

The main thing we're concentrating on now is Duolingo has been really good at doing beginner to a kind of an intermediate level. We are concentrating a lot more on taking people to an advanced level.

Luis Von ahn ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Apr 2026

If we want to teach plurals before adjectives or adjectives before plurals, what we do is we just do a test for the next 50,000 people that sign up and then it takes about 6 hours to get 50,000 new…

Luis Von ahn ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Apr 2026

We with Duolingo we work a lot to try to make it first of all as engaging as possible. One of the hardest things about learning a language by yourself is staying motivated. So we spend a lot of…

Luis Von ahn ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Apr 2026

The reCAPTCHA version, which is the later one, that one, the idea is that it kind of kills two birds with one stone. It solves two problems at once where as people are typing the CAPTCHAs, they're…

Luis Von ahn ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Apr 2026

A few years ago I was one of the two people who invented this thing called CAPTCHA, which are these distorted characters that you have to type all over the internet. Whenever you're buying tickets on…

Luis Von ahn ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Apr 2026

The difference in America is much more bottoms up which is why what we're doing with the Rise of the Rest and what you're talking about with your book is so important. It's not just decisions made in…

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Mar 2023

The investments made in the next year or two likely are going to turn out pretty well in terms of the ultimate returns better than the investments made two years ago when the market in retrospect was…

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Mar 2023

It's better to own a little less of a company that ends up being really successful than more of a company that ends up struggling or missing out on the opportunity.

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Mar 2023

I think it could actually fuel more innovation and startups because some of the people that had been working for these big companies suddenly are free agents and also some of the really big companies…

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Mar 2023

I think the whole idea of policy is going to matter more in these regulated sectors. I think partnerships are going to be more important in these sectors and place is going to be more important.

Steve Case ·CEO of Revolution ·Mar 2023

We would not have gone forward with this transaction if we did not have at a minimum a nod of interest from the French who are very important shareholders. Importantly this is not just a change of…

Bill Ackman ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

We're the only firm that grows organically. 98% of our assets are in these permanent capital vehicles, which means our AUM, our assets grow with compounding. So, the business model is like collecting…

Bill Ackman ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

The average equity closed-end fund over the last 8 years has generated a 7% return. We've generated a 25% return over the same period per annum.

Bill Ackman ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

I'm an American investor, running an American company, and I invest in American companies. But we don't have a way for US investors to invest with us. We didn't until today. And by bringing Pershing…

Bill Ackman ·CEO & Founder ·May 2026

Innovation is a constant thing, execution is an episodic thing. Recognize those are fundamentally different and build and think about systems around that.

Jim Whitehurst ·Advisor ·Apr 2018

The majority of great ideas are going to happen outside your company. The majority of innovation today isn't happening from vendors, and this is a vendor up here saying this, it is happening in…

Jim Whitehurst ·Advisor ·Apr 2018

The hardest thing that you leaders have to do is recognize your role goes from making decisions and holding people accountable to creating context in which your people can make their decisions.

Jim Whitehurst ·Advisor ·Apr 2018

We live in a much more volatile, uncertain, complex world where our ability to plan out in multi-year cycles is really a fool's errand. We don't know, we don't know how 5G is exactly going to unroll,…

Jim Whitehurst ·Advisor ·Apr 2018

The whole stack of governmental services is kind of archaic. They're still using paper and things like this. This whole financial stack should be revamped. We should be giving new technology to the…

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Jun 2021

I think what makes women uniquely more qualified in a lot of ways is their flexibility, is the fact that they can see past their ego to see whether something is going to function better without them.

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Jun 2021

I think gov tech changes everything. I think it is ripe for the picking. It's a big market. You know the entrepreneur, he's got potential. He's been to D.U. so that's good news at least he's had that…

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Jun 2021

I've actually had one of my companies pivot into these kind of FDA approval type things. Staying alive long enough for it to work seems like the biggest challenge.

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Mar 2026

I've had three grandchildren in the NICU. One of my daughters-in-law has had a lot of trouble bringing a baby to term. And if this really solves their problem, this is a big deal.

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Mar 2026

The people who come to us with passion to do something extraordinary end up making the money. The people who come to us wanting to make money never do.

Tim Draper ·Founder of Draper Associates ·Mar 2026

अमेरिका में एक फ्यूचरिस्ट हैं जिन्होंने कहा है कि पूरी दुनिया एक्सपीरियंस करेगी। अगले 10 साल में 100 वर्ष जितना प्रोग्रेस। क्वेश्चन बिफोर अस इज़ नॉट वेदर द फ्यूचर विल अराइव इट ऑलरेडी हैज़। द क्वेश्चन…

Kumar Birla ·Chairman ·Jun 2026

बिग बिज़नेसेस मस्ट कंटिन्यू टू सी एमएसएस कॉम्प्लीमेंट्री पार्टनर्स एंड कलेक्टिवली वी शुड एस्पायर टू क्रिएट एट लीस्ट 100 नेशनल चैंपियंस हु आर ग्लोबली कंपेटिटिव ग्लोबली रिकग्नाइज्ड एंड हु लीड देयर…

Kumar Birla ·Chairman ·Jun 2026

सेल्फ रिलायंस आफ्टर ऑल इज अबाउट कैपेबिलिटी। इट इज अबाउट हैविंग द कॉन्फिडेंस टू बिल्ड व्हाट अ नेशन नीड्स द पेशेंस टू इन्वेस्ट फॉर द लॉन्ग टर्म एंड द रेिलियंस टू अप एस अ वर्ल्ड चेंज चेंजेस अराउंड अस।

Kumar Birla ·Chairman ·Jun 2026

आत्मनिर्भरता केवल एक इकोनॉमिक पॉलिसी नहीं बल्कि राष्ट्र निर्माण का आधार है।

Kumar Birla ·Chairman ·Jun 2026