#ley

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball. ↗

— Summer Altice

#being #college #crap #fire #gave

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball. ↗

— Summer Altice

#got #i #inside #nickname #play

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #company #decide #gets #offers

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #board #building #companies #company

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #graduating #late #most #part

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#covered #days #everything #fine #first

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#always #edifice #glitter #golden #green

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years. ↗

— Summer Altice

#i #life #my life #part #played

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dozens #engineers #high #high-paying #job

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#arrived #bust #completely #entrepreneurs #fearless