Consumer Tech Quotes

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.

I guess for me, I keep saying the words 'consumer electronics,' 'consumer tech' - the biggest purchase decisions people make a lot of times are the phones they buy and the tech they buy. To be able to influence other people's decisions on that front is pretty game changing.

What people don't consider is that tech is a really personal purchase. You spend so much time using it.

We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications.

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.