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Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

I'm a first-born child of a Chinese immigrant family, I grew up on the East Coast. And I have to admit, I did not grow up around technology.

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When I go visit my mom in the retirement community where my parents live, she has a bunch of friends, and she will say, 'These neighbors I play bridge with have a son with an idea,' and it goes from there.

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Starbucks did this magical thing where it took a product that people didn't really care that much about and made it this treat. It makes you feel better about your day and gives you a chance to reflect, makes you feel a little special.

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If someone was having some surgery that was going to put them out for three months, it's something you should consider, with a man or a woman. What is the impact of having the C.E.O. or visionary out for three months?

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We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.

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There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

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I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.

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I played with different words like 'home run,' 'megahit,' and they just all sounded kind of 'blah.' So I put in 'unicorn' because they are - these are very rare companies in the sense that there are thousands of startups in tech every year, and only a handful will wind up becoming a unicorn company. They're really rare.

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I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.

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I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.

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There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

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There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.

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What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

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The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.

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Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

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Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

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I think, from a woman's perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different.

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There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.

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Seed stage is an investment area that is really important for early stage startups. It feels like there is a need for trusted, experienced people to work with and to guide startups at this level.

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It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

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Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web.

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It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

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I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

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Immigrants play a huge role in the founding and value creation of today's tech companies. We wonder how much more value could be created if it were easier to get a work visa.

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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.

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Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.

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The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.

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From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'

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Sequoia is a firm that a lot of people across tech and the Valley look to, and I think they're setting an important example in adding new diversity to their team.

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Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.

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There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

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I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.

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You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.

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Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce.

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Male founders who come across as Type B are more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.

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I work with tiny companies, so I don't really live in unicorn world, to be honest.

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