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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
- ▶ 3:46 Roelof Botha Meg Whitman gave me an offer to remain a CFO of the company, and Mike Moritz gave me a call and asked whether I'd interviewed Sequoia, which is kind of strange because they were looking for a computer science major who'd done product…
- ▶ 7:02 Roelof Botha The board was supportive, and Mike Moritz, in particular, was very supportive of backing the unknown underdog youngster. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 unnamed speaker Mike Maruts is the same way when I saw him as a board member at PayPal, and then when I joined Sequoia and I shadowed him on many boards, was listening and thinking as opposed to talking for the sake of hearing your own voice.
- ▶ 36:50 Roelof Botha Michael Moritz was a fantastic board member and influenced a bunch of our key decisions, but he also wasn't there on Saturday mornings when we had our management team meetings every single week.
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 13:05 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the power of listening there and kind of it originating from the roots in journalism, obviously Mike Moritz roots in journalism also, and I spoke to Jeff Lewis, a mutual friend of both of ours, an incredible ambassador, huge,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Before that, Ravi spent 10 years as a director at KKR, and I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady, Mike Moritz, Will Gabrick, Mathilde Collin, and Sagar Sangvi for some amazing questions and suggestions today.
- ▶ 31:39 Ravi Gupta Michael Moritz is on our board at Instacart and he epitomizes this. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Ravi Gupta I guess I didn't technically serve on the board with him, but it's not even close. 4 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.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 9:30 Joe Lonsdale Mike Moritz was a great investor who never built these things, but the key in our generation, you've seen 80, 90% of the best ones have this background.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 38:51 Mike Maples I'd say Mike Moritz at Sequoia Capital.