Sequoia

"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..."

"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."

John Coogan

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

"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."

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

Greg Isenberg

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

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

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..."

This Week in Startups

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"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."

Jason Lemkin

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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Obviously Sequoia, everyone knows, has a long-only fund, and then there's crossover funds that do it, but it's just a different skill set honestly."

"Immediately I'm thinking Mike Moore at Sequoia. He was chairman of Sequoia Capital. Now he's retired from that and he's at Sequoia Heritage."

"It's been really great to meet the Sequoia team and get to know everybody."

"There's all sorts of cool stuff that's happening that Andreessen's doing, that Thrive is doing, that General Catalyst is doing, that Sequoia is doing with their evergreen funds. These are all very cool concepts. It's just not us."

"If you're like a lead investor, like say a Sequoia or an XL or, you know, whoever, Founders Fund, and you own 20% of the company, you really can't do secondaries."

Joe Lonsdale

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"We got turned down by Accel, by Sequoia."

"I would always put Sequoia, I guess, number one to answer the question."

"Generally yes. I mean they're the best firm in particular if there's like a special connection with you and the partner or there's a special reason why them in particular. But I think what really matters is you want to have people that are there f..."

TBPN

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"Merkor CEO Brennan Foody detailed what he calls the Sequoia scam. Sequoia invests in two tranches. Everyone pretends they only did the higher valuation."

"Apple was invested in by Sequoia but I think it'd be very unlikely that Steve Jobs would ever go flexing that Apple was a Sequoia company."

20VC with Harry Stebbings

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"Green notes, sequoia, alim to Dragon"

"Sequoia had backed my previous two companies and they were always sticklers on you know your presentate how you presented and how you showed up"

"The riskiest version of this is we did it during our series A pitch to Sequoia where Sequoia grabbed a bunch of lawyers that they knew and they had us demo to them. And I just I remember Pat Grady emailed me afterwards and was like, 'Is that what ..."

Peter Diamandis

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"They just raised $50M from Sequoia."

"I was one of the first Sequoia funded companies before me were two people that had ever been funded by Sequoia from Y Combinator: Drew Houston from Dropbox. But the first one was Sam Altman this company called Loopt."

"We'll connect you to our investors like Sequoia and First Round and Redpoint and General Catalyst."

"Sequoia correctly said over the long term our very best companies continue to compounding. If you held all the companies, even the bad ones, the good ones would have swamped it because you'd have Apple, you'd have Cisco"

"Sequoia likes to call these like crucible moments"

"And then learned about YC and like Sequoia"

"Yes, I think and and there were people, you know, there was Tiger Global that what they had built was pretty inspiring um in the kind of 2010 times. I was a student of what people had done and I would go and ask people if I could sit in on their M..."

"we raised $150 million from the great folks at Coastal Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Blackstone, Insight, NEA"

Y Combinator

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"They just raised $50M from Sequoia"

"They just raised $50M from Sequoia"

"Prior to Cyber Stars, Gili spent over 15 years as a general partner at Sequoia where he invested in some of the world's best cyber security companies."

"Don Valentine the founder of Sequoia Capital came on the board, was the only investor, came on the road show with us"

"So Sequoia led our A."

"I want to thank Pat. I want to thank Alfred. I want to thank the entire partnership here at Sequoia for allowing me to join them and serve alongside them. Our our our partners, our customers. Uh our companies were investing in our founders. It's a..."

"In Square's case it was Roelof Botha at Sequoia. In Door Dash's case, it's Alfred Lin, ironically again from Sequoia"

"Ravi Gupta who just left Sequoia though he's still a venture partner there"