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Luciana Lixandru

7 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2022 by Luciana Lixandru · said 18 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (9), Julien Bek (7), Rob Lacher (1), Daniel Dines (1)

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Mar 21, 2022 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Lixandru: Hopin was likely the fastest-growing company in the world in 2020
“I believe Hopin was probably the fastest growing company that year.”
Luciana Lixandru Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 10:26 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
Mar 21, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Lixandru: Over-analyzing market size was my biggest early VC mistake
“One of the biggest mistakes I made in my early days was focus too much on market size, let's say. And I used to go and do my little spreadsheet and do the math and try to calculate.”
Luciana Lixandru Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 32:17 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
Mar 21, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lixandru: Deliveroo achieved early viral growth with virtually zero marketing spend
“This was pretty much no marketing, all word of mouth, and you could really tell they had hit the nail on the head in terms of customer demand”
Luciana Lixandru Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 12:44 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
Mar 21, 2022
Insight
Lixandru: Ignore a startup's thousand potential flaws to focus on key questions
“If you look at any company, there are a thousand questions you can ask that might have a negative answer, and there are a thousand different ways for any company to not be successful, but there are only a few questions that really matter, so I would say focus …”
Luciana Lixandru Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 17:51 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
Aug 12, 2022
Insight
Lixandru: Growth investors have less pricing flexibility than early-stage VCs
“With growth, I really think you need to stay sober. By definition, given the upside in venture versus growth, I think you have less room to play with pricing on the growth side.”
Luciana Lixandru Aug 12, 2022 ▶ 19:42 20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
Aug 12, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lixandru: Hopin's seed round was among Europe's most expensive at the time
“With Hoppin at the seed, I think it was one of the most, quote unquote, expensive seeds in Europe at the time.”
Luciana Lixandru Aug 12, 2022 ▶ 20:17 20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity
Aug 24, 2026 positive
Opinion
Bek: Luciana Lixandru is Sequoia's best company picker
“That one's easy. Luciana Alessandro my partner who actually Brought me into Sequoia. We worked together at Excel before, so I've worked with Luciana for most of my career now. She, you know, when I met her, she had just invested in Deliveroo then she did Frame…”
Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 16:37 Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
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