'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.

Chris Sacca

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Afrika Bambaataa

Male founders who come across as Type B are more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.

Aileen Lee

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

Aileen Lee

There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.

Aileen Lee

When companies are private, founders can share more about their future dreams with investors; report less; and the shares are illiquid, constraining short-term changes in valuation.

Aileen Lee

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

Al Franken

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Al Franken

We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English common law, which was the basis of law in the West.

Alan Colmes

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

Alan K. Simpson

In many ways, products are a reflection of their founders, and I consider myself a geek. But aside from that, Imgur just organically evolved into the epicenter of geek culture.

Alan Schaaf

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

Alexander Osterwalder

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

Alexis Ohanian

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.

Alexis Ohanian

It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.

Alexis Ohanian

As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.

Alfred Lin

There are two companies that the AI Fund has invested in - Woebot and Landing AI - and the AI Fund has a number of internal teams working on new projects. We usually bring in people as employees, work with them to turn ideas into startups, then have the entrepreneurs go into the startup as founders.

Andrew Ng

Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.

Andy Dunn

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.

Arthur Rock

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

Balaji Srinivasan

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Barack Obama