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Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:19 Harry Stebbings I believed in the Doug Leone. 2 times in the scene
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:29 Harry Stebbings It's like Doug Leone at Sequoia asks, what's your relationship like with your siblings?
Will Quist: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really “Venture Capital” | 20VC #924 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:09 Harry Stebbings It's this self-fulfilling flywheel, I often think, and I said that to Doug Leone when he was on the show, and brilliantly, humbly, he was like, huh, I would love that to happen, but people don't just go, oh, Doug, 2 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:07 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of really feeling it, and taking that back to the mission, um, I, I do have to ask also, you know, I had Doug Leone on the show from Sikora, and he said, you know, Sikora is a team, not a family.
Peter Singlehurst: The Most Powerful Investor You've Never Heard of | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:30 Harry Stebbings Um, Doug Leoni from Sequoia said on the show, I love this.
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,…
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:29 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, you know, I had Doug Leone on the show, and he described Sequoia's culture as, uh, not a family, but as a team, where performance is number one.
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:37 unnamed speaker Doug Leone said on the show, you know, Sequoia are not a family, we are a team, and performance is number one, and that embodies everything about Sequoia.
20VC: How Today's Market Changes How Companies Should Approach Burn and Runway, Are Financing Markets Closing? How To Know When To Pay Up vs Stay Price Disciplined & Why The Most Important Thing in Venture is Generating Positive Selection with Bill Cilluf
- ▶ 29:55 Harry Stebbings I remember Doug Leoni said on the show, when you lose pre-seed, you become private accuracy. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons Scaling Insight Partners to a $20BN Latest Fund, The Two Biggest Learnings on Price, How to Manage and Train Young People in Venture, Why Business Classrooms Do Not Work and How to Assess the Two Commodities in Life; Money and Time with Jeff
- ▶ 29:34 Harry Stebbings On the sufferings and that, you know, questioning yourself, Doug Leone actually said on the show about going through the abyss as a young investor, where you do, you know, lose money and struggle.
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
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings And I also cannot thank Doug Leone, George Robson, Pat Grady, Ravi Gupta, Sean Maguire, and Robert Visionaries enough.
- ▶ 13:18 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask, so we mentioned delivery, we've mentioned hopping, there's UI path, there's Miro, I mean, the list goes on, but Doug Leone had three of his first checks be IPOs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:38 Luciana Lixandru Firstly, I take it as a huge compliment that Doug would say that we think the same way. 4 times in the scene
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 38:00 Harry Stebbings Like, that Doug Leone episode was fantastic.
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on How To Narrow The Focus and Increase The Quality | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Doug at Square and Mike at Sutter Hill, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 4:14 Harry Stebbings And so when I spoke to Doug Leone, he said to me, how did he do it?
- ▶ 22:19 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Karl Ashenbach and Doug before the show, and they said that Frank is simply the best leader when it comes to getting the best performance out of team members in particular.
Chris Sacca's True Unfiltered Opinion on Facebook and Softbank | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:46 Harry Stebbings The thing I do have to ask is I had Doug Leone on the show recently, and his first three investments were three IPOs, and he said it actually distorted his mindset having three big hits early.
- ▶ 1:03:32 Chris Sacca Doug Leone was like, fuck no, people don't just come to me with deals, but, um, I think, I think Doug was bullshitting, uh, but you know, like Instagram came to me, but like Kevin Systrom literally said, I want three angels, you, Adam… 2 times in the scene
20VC Special: Accel Founders Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz on Building Accel Into One of the Most Prominent Venture Firms Over Four Decades, How Today's Market Compares To The Dot Com Bubble, How To Do Generational Transition Well and Why Accel Will Nev
- ▶ 14:21 Harry Stebbings I spoke to a lot of people before the show, and it was actually Doug Leoni at Sequoia, who said, I'd love to hear Arthur on a seventeen-year cycle thesis, how he thinks about the seventeen-year cycle that you've discussed before, and what…
- ▶ 32:49 Arthur Patterson I think Doug said, you know, if you, once you get out of early stage, you have private equity. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- ▶ 6:20 Harry Stebbings The thing I do have to ask is I had Doug Leone on the show recently, and his first three investments 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:50 Harry Stebbings So I think that and my episode with Doug Leone are the two highlights of all 2850 shows
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 16:05 Anton Levy And so if you are a Sequoia, and you're a Doug Leone, and you can get access to the Series A at Airbnb, you know, Doug is probably saying, why are we letting General Atlantic into Airbnb, you know, to do the 355 hundred million dollar… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
- ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings On Tuesday, we released our episode with OG of Venture, Doug Leone, which naturally broke all records, and so today, I'm very, very excited to welcome an incredible Sequoia company that's made its mark like no other over the last few years.
20VC: Nubank CEO David Velez on Scaling Nubank to a $25BN Company, Why What Makes a Great Founder Does Not Make a Great CEO & The Responsibility Framework and How Leaders Can Use It To Drive Efficiency
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings To fuel this incredible growth, David has raised over 1.5 billion dollars for NewBank from some of the best in the business, including Doug Leone at Sequoia, Mickey at Ribbits, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've heard so many great things from Doug Leone, from Woody at TCV, from Jeff. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Doug, you mentioned Mike. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:25 Harry Stebbings The main man, Doug Lione, asked a tough question, and he said, with regards to leadership, you know, and with the growth of yourself as a leader, you know, everyone always has self-doubt.
- ▶ 31:44 David Vélez I don't know what the best way to say it, but I, I'll go back to Doug Leone's wise words, which is a bit of a sense of desperation, like a hunger. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 31:48 Joe Thomas And he sent an email that had 20 Sequoia partners and team members, including Rulof, Doug Leone, Michael Morwitz, who all recorded a Loom talking about why they were so excited to join Loom on our journey. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Harry Stebbings I'm not sure how you can kind of go anywhere from Doug Lee only doing a luminous swimming pool, but I'll try and make it a swift transition to the quickfire round.
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: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Okta, the independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time, and to date, Frederick's raised over four hundred and fifteen million dollars with Okta from some of the very…
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 30:02 Jeff Richards But I think what you see is experienced venture capitalists and some of the most well-known venture capitalists, Bill Gurley, Doug Leone, Jim Getz, the further along they've got in their career, the more risk they take.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- ▶ 23:42 Harry Stebbings But moving kind of one step before the quickfire round, and I do have to ask this because you've worked with some of the greats in venture from Leonie and Gurley, seeing them in action amongst others.
- ▶ 24:00 Jeff Morris Jr. I mean, so I grew up going to school with Doug Leonie's daughter and got to know Doug just through growing up and investors like him and Bill Gurley, Tim Draper, they really make you feel like you're the center of your world for a moment… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- ▶ 18:50 Max Motschwiller I mean, the reality is I want to be a Mary Meeker, Doug Leone, a Mark Andreessen on these high profile companies, especially when I believe in them.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
- ▶ 5:48 Pat Grady And just to use one example, if you look at my partner, Doug Leone, who I think is one of the best venture capital investors of all time, he's not a great VC because of the seven years he spent in enterprise sales.
- ▶ 21:23 Pat Grady And that's why when we got into China, instead of sending Doug or Jim or some of our more senior partners at Sequoia over to Beijing and asking them to build a business, we found somebody local and Neil Shin
- ▶ 23:33 Pat Grady So two of them, Doug Leoni and Jim Getz, both partners of mine here at Sequoia. 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 23:03 Neeraj Agrawal I'll tell you, I, I really admire, um, Doug Leone at, at Sequoia. 6 times in the scene
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