A Quote by David Sze

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — © David Sze
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.
There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.
What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.
Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.
I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.
We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure or the political power structure, knows what to do or is willing to do what's necessary in relationship both to global war and global warming. It's so obvious that conditions are getting worse for the great majority of Americans. It's so obvious also that we face a very serious danger from people who feel, see themselves only as victims. And we have to somehow, in a very loving way, help the American people to recover the best that is in our traditions.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.
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