Top 34 Levitan Quotes
#1. Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
Dan Levitan
#2. I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
Dan Levitan
#3. So anyone who says that we shouldn't act on climate change because of uncertainty is really inviting you to ride towards a brick wall at 80 km/h because it might not hurt. [Do] you feel lucky?2
Dave Levitan
#4. At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories ... and that requires virtually no technology.
Steven Levitan
#5. You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
Dan Levitan
#6. I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.
Steven Levitan
#7. I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
Steven Levitan
#8. I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
Steven Levitan
#9. Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).
Chana Levitan
#10. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
Steven Levitan
#11. We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
Dan Levitan
#12. With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.
Steven Levitan
#13. There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
Dan Levitan
#14. We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
Dan Levitan
#15. I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.
Steven Levitan
#16. Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.
Steven Levitan
#17. No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.
Chana Levitan
#18. Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.
Steven Levitan
#19. I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
Steven Levitan
#20. Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.
Steven Levitan
#21. We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
Dan Levitan
#23. As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
Dan Levitan
#24. None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
Steven Levitan
#25. I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
Dan Levitan
#26. I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.
Dan Levitan
#27. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
Steven Levitan
#28. In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
Dan Levitan
#29. What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.
Steven Levitan
#30. Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart.
Chana Levitan
#31. We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
Dan Levitan
#32. Practically every consultant, or 96% of the sample, pointed to "chemistry" as the key factor for winning. But what exactly is chemistry? Generally speaking it is simpatico between the client and agency teams.
Peter Levitan
#33. Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Dan Levitan
#34. True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.
Chana Levitan
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