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Last discussed Oct 17, 2026

Prominent venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across various stages from seed to growth.

How Sequoia compares

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Benchmark Direct rival
early-stage startup investor

Sequoia helps with recruiting, marketing, and launches. Harrison says Benchmark focuses more on core company building and positioning.

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Harrison Chase

"Sequoia's style I think is they help with like everything, like they are just a machine. So they help with recruiting of ICs, of executives, they help with marketing and launches... I think absolutely it's worth taking a discount for Seq..."

Benchmark focuses more on core company building and positioning

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Harry Stebbings

"If you check Google Trends, he gets more searches than Sequoia without even blinking, because 330 million people have some sense of who he is."

Used as a brand recognition benchmark — Ashton Kutcher reportedly generates more Google searches than Sequoia

What creators say

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Harrison Chase
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Used for: Venture funding and company-building support Praised: Recruiting via talent network, marketing and launch help, operationalization vs: Benchmark focuses more on core company building and positioning

"Sequoia's style I think is they help with like everything, like they are just a machine. So they help with recruiting of ICs, of executives, they help with marketing and launches... I think absolutely it's worth taking a discount for Sequoia and B..."

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Ali Golshan
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Praised: Long-term thinking

"I've been fortunate to have some great investors. I also only a couple weeks ago joined Sequoia Capital, and they have a great track record of thinking long term."

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John Coogan
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"You can sort of see why they raised a billion at 10 billion from Benchmark, Sequoia."

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"Sequoia co-led the B and co-led the C. And so that is — I'd say that's max conviction, boys."

"We have Dean Meyer from Sequoia Capital here to talk about America's open model paradox."

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Daniel Ek
mentioned

"We rearchitected the website, I hired an entirely new technical team, brought it down to under a second of load time, and obviously the traffic exploded. Sequoia invested."

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Kevin Ryan
mentioned

"They just raised, it was announced publicly, from Sequoia at $6 billion."

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Greg Isenberg
mentioned

"Firms like Sequoia think there's a trillion up for grabs and how to start one yourself."

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"Hey, I want you to make a VC style deck that'll allow me to raise $2 million from Sequoia Capital."

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Amjad Masad
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"I remember this Sequoia blog post about SBF that's like gold. They deleted it. You can find it on archive.org."

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Jordi Hays
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"Even through June, maybe they did the Sequoia deal that valued the company at 15.5 before that happened, because it was announced September 9th, but I have to imagine that the deal probably got done with at least some insight into those negative g..."

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Praised: Big firm with a great reputation that signals credibility and attracts other ...

"When I had Sequoia invest in my company, let me tell you something. You get a big, big firm with a great reputation. I got three or four offers after that."

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"I've empowered my team to create scouts just like the Sequoia Scouts program. I was the first Sequoia Scout and they named it Scouts."

"Roelof told me that at Sequoia when he said, 'Great companies are bought, not sold. If you're in the selling process and trying to convince people,..."

Jason Lemkin
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vs: Referenced alongside Andreessen Horowitz as elite VC brands

"As great as Insight is, it's not Andreessen, and it's not Sequoia. So what do you do to win? You do whatever deal structure it takes to win."

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"Brandon at McCaw has mouthed off on Twitter about Sequoia's tranched rounds. I think it's brilliant marketing for Sequoia."

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Doug Leone
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"When I came back to Sequoia, they gave me this fancy title of chairman. What I really am is an analyst. I'm a low-level analyst and I have to prove myself."

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Julien Bek
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Praised: Competitive, hunter mentality; team-based winning; conviction-driven investments

"Everyone thinks that we're just waiting for the phone to ring for the next Anthropic to call us to invest. That's completely false. Everyone at Sequoia is a hunter."

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Harry Stebbings
mentioned

"Valor Atomics triples to $6 billion price as Sequoia bets on nuclear for AI."

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+4 more mentions from Harry

"Etched is the challenger to Nvidia in many respects and they raised $300 million Series C led by Sequoia."

"If you have Kleiner or you have DST or you have Sequoia, great candidates suddenly want to talk to you a lot more."

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