One-on-One with Jim Breyer (opens in new tab)

Are entrepreneurs born or made? It’s a combination. There are some gifted entrepreneurs who have an intuitive sense of how products, customers, and markets will collide three to five years out. They bring intellectual leadership combined with an extraordinary feel for how markets evolve.

In all cases, however, these individuals are among the hardest-working executives in the portfolio. The balance between optimism, candidness, intellectual honesty, and integrity results in a virtuous set of characteristics that are shared by all exceptional entrepreneurs.