a16z@a16z
"There's something about this culture of young people coming up where they're not afraid of hard work. They're not afraid to pop a Zyn and work at the factory all day."
Why @KTmBoyle is bullish on Zoomers:
"The best quote that summarizes why I'm so bullish on the Zoomers is Alysa Liu after winning her gold. She said, 'I love to struggle. It makes me feel alive.'"
"It's the opposite of the morose theater kid vibes that we got from the millennial generation, where everything was very different in how they operated."
"Like Jack Hughes—they get their teeth knocked out, they come back and say, 'It's not even a question. Of course I got my teeth knocked out. It's hockey.'"
"And that means we're seeing totally different companies than we saw out of the Facebook diaspora—which was very much the Harvard dorm room—I like to work on my computer, I like to build apps. It's a totally different style of founder."
"The next generation is so patriotic and bullish on the American project. I think this generation cares a lot about the country. And it shocked us. @davidu and I talk about this all the time—for some of these young people, they were not born on September 11th. They have no recollection of the things that the millennials remember, or anyone older than us remembers, but they care about the country."
"They look up to people like @elonmusk, to people like Alex Karp. They look up to people who've been doing the hard thing for 20, 30 years and they want to do it too."
"It's a different generation of founder that we've had the privilege of seeing very, very early on. I think the rest of the country is going to define tech and Silicon Valley by these people for the next 10–20 years."
From @nypost
