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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 3:53 Harry Stebbings Um, Alfred were on TV, uh, and they said, they were asked about Sean Maguire's tweets, and I said, Alfred's comment was the best I've seen, which is, well, we look at the balance sheet of Sean, and I just thought, when summarizing someone,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Harry Stebbings Is there a meeting for, like, just Pat and Alfred to, like, sit by a fireplace and pontificate, um, or, you know, strategize? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:33 Harry Stebbings Alfred Lin. 4 times in the scene
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Alfred Lin, Sonia, Matt Miller, many more.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:27 Harry Stebbings There was never an investor meeting where, like, I don't know, it was with, I'm just making it up, Alfred Lynn, and he was just super insightful and smart on the future of the industry, me, my business, and I was like, God, that's a shame…
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:16 Matan Grinberg Retrospectively, I know like Alfred and Pat and Roloff, they were all like in there, they were all asking questions, and I was probably dismissing some of them,
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:11 Harry Stebbings And, um, you know, Pat and Alfred had recently taken over the leadership from Roloff. 2 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:59 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Alfred.
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:38 Tarek Mansour Alfred Lin is incredible. 14 times in the scene
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 51:53 Max Altman Like you said, Mamoon or Alfred Lin, and they can't.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings We saw Rodolf Botha moving out as steward, uh, after a three-year tenure, and being replaced by Pat Grady and Alfred Lynn, which was, I think, quite surprising news to the venture ecosystem.
- ▶ 5:18 Harry Stebbings Walmart versus Chanel, and the boutiques are your benchmarks, your USVs, your specific products, and I think when you see this splintering of leadership between Alfred, Lynn, and Early,
Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:06 Alex Bouaziz Um, I really, really love Alfred Lin from Sequoia. 10 times in the scene
Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:17 Shaun Maguire If it's an operationally heavy company, it's Alfred.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:33 Delian Asparouhov I've gotten to observe at TrueWork, um, you know, sort of Alfred Lin and, you know, would love to, you know, sort of one day find something where we're actually both the, you know, sort of board members.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:23 Harry Stebbings This was from Alfred.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings Alfred normally sends quite curt emails, he's a busy guy, and with you recommending topics, it was like an essay of your brilliance, which, you know, I wish he'd say some nice things about me, but um, thank you for joining me today.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:52 Harry Stebbings Alfred Lind, sourced lead, sat on the board of Airbnb.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:51 Harry Stebbings I remember reading in the research for this, and then I thought instantly to, we, you know, do a show called The Memo, where we review the investment decision of multi-billion dollar companies, and we've had, you know, Jeremy from Snap,…
Ophelia Brown: How We Raised $432M in a Pandemic; What's New in European Venture Capital | E990 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:37 Harry Stebbings Cold email to Mike Moritz and Alfred Lynn. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:11 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Alfred Lin, um, before the show, and he mentioned your walks, uh, during COVID on Sundays. 3 times in the scene
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:02 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Alfred Lin, I spoke to your brother, I spoke to Emil Michael, I spoke to many others, so thank you so much for joining me today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings Speaking of more energized, I spoke to Alfred Lin, a mutual friend before the show, and he said one of the special things about Hardy is the speed with which he works. 2 times in the scene
Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:05 Sujay Jaswa And he said, listen, like Alfred and I are going to come up and have dinner with you. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 25:36 Sujay Jaswa And he said, listen, Alfred and I are going to come up and have dinner with you. 3 times in the scene
Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:49 Harry Stebbings The other truth is I think there's a utility value to board members that resembles a barbell, which is like Fenton, Gurley at the A, um, you know, Alfred Lynn at the A, Roloff Botha at the A, amazing Pat Grady at the A, great, and then…
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:55 Emil Michael And so in my same class at Harvard, um, Ahadi Partovi, Ali Partovi, David Wyden from Coastal Ventures, Alfred Land, Tony Hsieh, I mean, all of us graduated the same year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Emil Michael Hadi, Ali, David, Alfred.
- ▶ 13:51 Harry Stebbings Bringing kind of all those together, I had chatted to Alfred Lin before this show, and he said that Emil is just the master when it comes to deal making.
- ▶ 45:09 Harry Stebbings Um, uh, I, I do want to also, um, and Alfred asked this one.
- ▶ 1:03:26 Harry Stebbings Number one is Alfred Lin told me about, you know, fatherhood.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour: How to Build Moats Against Incumbents; How to Hire Engineers | 20VC #931 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Tarek, I've heard so many good things, and we met before through obviously Alex at Deal, but then I spoke to Alfred at Sequoia, I spoke to Shreyas, who I had on the show, I spoke to Ali Partovi, I feel like I know you incredibly well…
- ▶ 21:42 Harry Stebbings So one of my insecurities is that maybe LPs would treat me younger because of my age, and I often ask, would they treat Alfred Lin like this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:36 Tarek Mansour You know, the way, the thing I would say, and you know, Alfred and, you know, Ali Rogani on the board, like, and they're both really great.
- ▶ 41:38 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, before we move into a quick fight, you work with some incredible people, Alfred Lin, Henry Kravis, Chuck Schwab, um, and this was Ali Partovi, so credit him for this, but he said, what's been your biggest one learning from… 4 times in the scene
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:31 Harry Stebbings It's funny, I spoke to Alfred Lim before the show, and he said he's never met anyone who competes at such high level with such brilliance as you, but also does it with such elegance and grace, and I thought that was a great compliment.
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:21 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is if you're on a board with Alfred Lin or Doug Leone or Bill Gurley, or you name these guys, and then you comment in real time on a Google doc, when they comment, it takes a very bold person to comment back,… 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:38 Keith Rabois Alfred, uh, Lynn from Sequoia led the initial Seed Series A, and I led the Series B.
20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- ▶ 22:39 Harry Stebbings I thought we'd slightly kind of borrow from that ideal, which was when you look at, say, Doug, Alfred, Roloff, and Pat, I would love to just unpack, having worked with them now for the time that you have, what's one significant learning… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:19 Luciana Lixandru Who are world-class operators themselves, like Alfred Lin or Carl Eschenbach, and the list goes on, and local operators.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Tarika Kalshi and Alfred Lin at Sequoia.
- ▶ 3:32 Harry Stebbings I heard so many great things, especially from Alfred Lim before the show. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:09 Ali Partovi From my own first startup and what I was saying about Alfred and through various angel investments to Dropbox has to do with people.
- ▶ 12:34 Harry Stebbings I do want to go back to, you know, you mentioned Alfred, and I want to go back to LinkExchange, and I want to start with our first story of the day, and I decided to say chronologically here, I thought it would probably be a little bit…
- ▶ 12:45 Harry Stebbings This story with Alfred, Link Exchange, 1995.
20VC: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on The Art of Great Leadership Today, Why The Best Give All of the Credit and Take All of the Blame & How DoorDash Have Won The Best Talent Against the Toughest Competition
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you, though, to Pejman at Pear, Thomas at Cotu, Alfred at Sequoia, Sara at CRV.
- ▶ 2:45 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Sara at CRV, Alfred at Sequoia, and so many more.
- ▶ 6:03 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, so speaking of kind of your childhood there, I spoke to Alfred Lin at Sequoia before the show, and he said, you've got to ask about Tony's children.
20VC: Rappi Founder Simón Borrero on Growth vs Profitability, Capital Efficiency, Raising $1.7Bn as a LATAM Company and Why Uber Eats Did More To Help Than To Hurt Rappi
- ▶ 7:41 Harry Stebbings I've had Alfred Lynn from Sequoia, one of your investors on the show, and when we spoke about DoorDash recently, me and him on the show, he said that chasing GMV can really make for bad habits and bad behaviors.
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings We are back for the 20 Minute VC in Founders Friday with me, Harry Stebbings, and following from our episode with Alfred Lynn at Sequoia on Wednesday, we're joined by an incredible Sequoia founder today in the form of Hubert Palan, founder…
20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings To date, Reddit has raised over five hundred and fifty million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world of venture, including Sequoia Capital, Mark Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Sam Altman, Josh Kushner, Alfred…
20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings You sit on it with Al 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Think About Founder-Category Fit, Why The Biggest Opportunities Are In Category Re-Architecture & What Can Be Done To Increase The Amount of Women In VC with Nadia Boujarwah, Founder & CEO @ Dia & Co
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over twenty million dollars in funding from some of the best in the business, including the likes of Alfred Lynn at Sequoia and the team at NextView Ventures. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Alfred at Sequoia and Mika at Founder Collective for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Nadia.
- ▶ 7:56 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Alfred and Mika at Founder Collective earlier in the show.
- ▶ 23:35 Harry Stebbings As I said, I had so many great things both from Mika and from Alfred, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 23:44 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic guest Nadia was to have on the show there, and again, a big thank you to Mika at Founder Collective, Rob Go at NextView, and Alfred Lin at Sequoia, all for the introductions.
20VC: Why Every Founder Should Bootstrap Their Startup, How To Solve Information Asymmetry Between Founders and VCs & Living In A Cupboard For Two Years To Fund StyleSeat with Melody McCloskey, Founder & CEO @ StyleSeat
- ▶ 0:25 Harry Stebbings Including Alfred Lynn at Sequoia, Chris Sacker, Jeff Clavier, Eileen Lee, Lightspeed, the list goes on.