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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 39:58 Julien Bek Uh, I'll go back to the Don Valentine quote. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:18 Marc Andreessen Um, by the way, it matters for a couple of reasons, and this is a lesson that gets, like, relearned over and over again, and will be learned many times in the future, uh, which is, you know, the old Don Valentine thing, which I do think is…
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:02 Mitchell Green That is, like, very, um, in the, do you think guys like Don Valentin or Mike Moritz or John Doerr, they would be, like, putting guns to these founders' heads today and be like, you need to go public.
- ▶ 57:03 Mitchell Green No, it's just like, like we need more Doug Leonis and Don Valentines, and
David Clark: Lessons from 32 Years of Fund Investing - Why Exits Will Be Larger | E1131 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:33 David Clark Um, I think Sequoia have a really interesting way of doing it as well, where, you know, people kind of step aside and, and, um, you know, Don Valentine stepped aside for Mike and Doug, you know, Doug stepped aside for Roloff.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:10 Phin Barnes From, from the seventies when it started and you had folks like Don Valentine jumping into hot tubs with Nolan Bushnell and investing in Atari.
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:27 Rick Zullo Like it's very much in this Don Val, a Don Valentine archetype.
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:51 Shu Nyatta Don Valentine said the single advice he'd give people is to have big ears, right?
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:34 Will Quist Don Valentine was a contemporary of my grandfather's and was a friend of his. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 2:56 Harry Stebbings What an incredible thirty-three-year journey with Sequoia, but I did my research before this, and Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital, five p.m. meeting with Don Valentine. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Harry Stebbings And it's the same as Dom.
- ▶ 13:18 Doug Leone I will tell you there were people who wanted me out at Sequoia Capital after 24 months, and it was only through the good graces and good judgment I now say from Don Valentine that I'm still here.
20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- ▶ 8:53 Harry Stebbings I love some of Don Valentine's early talks on market.
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 14:05 Roelof Botha So when I first joined Sequoia, Don Valentine was still in our office, and he took me aside probably in the first month, and he said, Rudolph, there's a two-by-two matrix of people we invest in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Roelof Botha Some of it stems from the way that Don set up the partnership originally, and he didn't call it Valentine Capital. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:38 Roelof Botha And when I interviewed, Don actually told me one of his biggest fears for me was that I hadn't seen enough failure in my life by the time I joined Sequoia.
- ▶ 28:31 unnamed speaker One of the great things I took away from Don Valentine as well was his listening gene.
20VC: Steve Blank on Why The Startup Ecosystem is Partially A Ponzi Scheme, 3 Things That Determine Startup Survival in a COVID World & Facebook: Platform vs Publisher and Where Does Their Responsibility Lie?
- ▶ 25:06 Steve Blank It was great to watch Doug channel his mentor in Sequoia, Don Valentine, so he was a force of nature.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 15:26 Sumit Gajri So for me, and this may come across as a somewhat controversial statement, I'm a very market first investor, but there was this great presentation given by Don Valentine, which you can find on YouTube at Stanford university.
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 23:27 Harry Stebbings And then Don Valentine's always said about the importance of market, yet I always go back to people.
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 3:22 Bing Gordon In 1982, I met John Doerr and Brooke Byers, and then also Don Valentine of Sequoia, who were the founding investors in electronic cars.
- ▶ 5:05 Bing Gordon The EA board meeting lasted about an hour talking about strategy, and Don Valentine hadn't said a thing, and finally, people noticed he hadn't said a thing, and he was just circling one sentence in his notepad, and he was asked, well, you… 3 times in the scene