“At Andreessen Horowitz, we favor founders running the company.”
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, whose business partner, Marc Andreessen, has studiously avoided the role of CEO throughout his career as a company founder, on the same day that Andreessen-backed startup Ning saw a cofounder step down as CEO, TechCrunch, 15 March 2010
“We really thought carefully about it and wanted to find a special environment where we really could grow these teams and grow these careers and work with customers, work with people who use Facebook.”
Facebook head of online operations Brady Burnett, on why the Silicon Valley-based social network has chosen to exile its customer-service drones to Austin, KVUE, 12 March 2010
“[SXSW] is a four-day event in which everyone who already knows about both those products is already down there. It’s a ton of fun, meeting all the people who have [been] pitching for you and supporting your stuff.”
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, admitting that his company’s marketing push against rival geolocation service Gowalla at the South By Southwest Conference in Austin reaches no new customers, Fortune.com, 12 March 2010
“Let the free markets decide which company is best. We want lots of companies with lots of great ideas competing with a Darwinian pressure.”
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, whose previous experience with free markets featured an episode of youthful indiscretion where he made off with shirts from JCPenney without paying, on his plans to spend $79 billion as chaotically as possible, BusinessWeek, 11 March 2010
“It’s where the intersection between digital and physical starts to get interesting. Starbucks loves that, because we’re always looking for that intersection, which we think is the evolution of social networks.”
Starbucks executive Chris Bruzzo, frothing more than just lattes as he tries to pretend he’s not in the fast-food business, Bits, 11 March 2010
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