“We were in a pretty deep dark hole for a long time. But now it’s a pretty out-of-body experience.”
Pandora founder Tim Westergren, doing his best to scare away the investment bankers who might be interested in his Internet-music startup, New York Times, 8 March 2010
“We’re helping save the next generation of college grads that would have gone over to Morgan Stanley.”
Harvard MBA and Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon, who takes credit for a deal as readily as any investment banker, on porting Wall Street ethics over to the startup scene, New York Times, 7 March 2010
“Someone is already trying to make a dating site. But they made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them. So I’m like delaying it so it won’t be ready until after the Facebook thing comes out.”
An instant message purportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to cofounder Eduardo Saverin in December 2003 on his plans to sabotage a rival social-networking site, Business Insider, 5 March 2010
“Do you really intend to attack us with mistruths for our efforts to help Haiti? I have remained quiet in the past while your blog has spread lies about my company but this one goes too far.”
Zynga CEO and underemployed Internet commenter Mark Pincus, responding to observations that his social-gaming startup kept $1.2 million from sales of highly profitable virtual goods in the process of collecting an equal amount in donations for Haiti last year, Valleywag, 4 March 2010
“A lot of companies can go off course because of corporate pressures. I don’t know what we are going to be building five years from now. I don’t know what we are going to be building three years from now.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, on his aversion to strategery at the social network, Wall Street Journal, 3 March 2010
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