Quotes by Jose Ferreira

About Jose Ferreira:

Jose Ferreira is an American entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Knewton.
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It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

Jose Ferreira

In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.

Jose Ferreira

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

Jose Ferreira

No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Jose Ferreira

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Jose Ferreira

I found school very boring and frustrating.

Jose Ferreira

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

Jose Ferreira

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Jose Ferreira

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

Jose Ferreira

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

Jose Ferreira

Author Bio

  • NameJose Ferreira
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornDecember 6, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America