The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Sir Michael Moritz emerges in this interview as a Navigator, someone who charts unfamiliar terrain with disciplined curiosity rather than rigid expertise.
“It's very similar, although in the venture business or in the investment business, you have One huge advantage which is when your legs don't carry you as quickly as they used to you can keep on playing.”
“Klana and Stripe and Square and Prosper and several others in China India, we would never in the early nineteen eighties have dreamed in a million years that we'd be investing in all of these different segments, so that without doubt is the largest change. So the ubiquitous of technology.”
“All of which is really healthy. However, I think there are a number, not a number of companies who operate in the private market that are just deluding themselves and are using the shadows and privacy that being private offers to not disclose very much about what they're doing, particularly to investors, to camouflage reality, to camoufla…”
“Well, I read the story in the New York Times, and if you had the choice between being a shareholder in the New York Times Company and in Amazon, I know which one I would pick. And I thought it was a harsh, uncharitable story of one of America's great companies.”
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