Is Kleiner Perkins not funding Web 2.0 companies anymore?
There was some discussion of that in the blogosphere recently, with valuations for Facebook and other Web 2.0 companies getting really, really high. I’m not aware of that. A lot has been done but we haven’t made it an official policy. I love bubbles. We made a lot of money in bubbles. Every time Google passes one of the century marks, 100 to 200 to 300, everybody said, “My god.” If you bought Google on the offering you would have made about 10 to 1. Is the market always right? No. Is it always wrong? No. You don’t get rich by betting against the market. Is there too much venture capital floating around? There’s always been too much money in venture capital. It doesn’t mean you can’t make too much money in venture capital. What’s the worst investment you ever made? There are so many. Hundreds of them. In all of these things if you put the risk up-front and use your initial money to try to reduce the risk, you won’t lose that much money. But one Google covers an awful lot of early stage
