Jim Goetz Quotes

#1. Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Jim Goetz

#2. We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Jim Goetz

#3. WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

Jim Goetz

#4. I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.

Jim Goetz

#5. I spend about half my time in mobile and half my time on enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#6. If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

Jim Goetz

#7. It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#8. All of WhatsApp's growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to try the service.

Jim Goetz

#9. At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

Jim Goetz