Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.
People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.
Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
My investors expect me to maximize profits.
I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.