Quora Session with Peter Fenton

My partner Kevin Harvey told me that the defining attributes of people in the venture business are hyper-curiosity and hyper-competitiveness. If I’m unusually productive, I think it comes from the first of those two character flaws. I’ve found that as you engage in this world, activity breeds activity. If you’re constantly asking “what’s new, what’s working, and why” it opens this vast array of opportunity right in front of your eyes. I’m also suitably naive, still, to the risks of saying yes. I don't invest in trends. I know it sounds a bit too-cool-for-school but what I've found is that you get far more insight from purpose than from trends. So, for example, in the case of Docker I invested in Dotcloud (which became Docker), in the purpose of this radical, intense leader, Solomon, who wanted to give the world's programmers superpowers, tools of mass innovation. In the case of Yelp, it was Jeremy's purpose to allow for the truth of great (and bad) local businesses to be visible to all

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