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Jose Ferreira

I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
— Jose Ferreira love
If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
— Jose Ferreira advice
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.
— Jose Ferreira time
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
— Jose Ferreira relationships
Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.
— Jose Ferreira education
If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
— Jose Ferreira time
Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.
— Jose Ferreira art
Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
— Jose Ferreira education
Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
— Jose Ferreira technology
I found school very boring and frustrating.
— Jose Ferreira school
I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
— Jose Ferreira education
In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.
— Jose Ferreira
It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
— Jose Ferreira fun
The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
— Jose Ferreira self
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
— Jose Ferreira
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
— Jose Ferreira world
Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.
— Jose Ferreira business
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.
— Jose Ferreira money
I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
— Jose Ferreira education
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
— Jose Ferreira business
Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
— Jose Ferreira life
It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.
— Jose Ferreira time
Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
— Jose Ferreira books
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
— Jose Ferreira real
No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
— Jose Ferreira you

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