“ There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them. ”
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
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.
I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.
When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.