Scott Rogowsky Quotes

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.