There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.