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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 Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:55 Akshay Kothari I think the person we had talked to there, um, was, um, Mike Vernal then, uh, who was a early personal investor, and, um, and I think they actually wrote a very thoughtful note, uh, for, for why. 2 times in the scene

Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:45 Sam Corcos The people who were most engaged was Mike Vernal at Sequoia and Jeff Jordan and Andreessen.

Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 5, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on Why You Need Sponsors Not Mentors, Where Management Skills Align with Good Parenting & The First 100 Days as CEO at Instacart; The Challenges, The Surprises and The Next Chapter Oct 18, 2021 · 1 mention

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 Oct 26, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:24 Roelof Botha Our get-togethers as an investor team, we start off with something called check-ins, which is something that Mike Vernal brought to us.

20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor Jul 3, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings And I do also want to say a huge thank you to Mike Vernal at Sequoia and JD Ross at Atomic,
  • ▶ 3:05 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things, both from Mike Vernal at Sequoia and then also JD from Atomic.
  • ▶ 22:39 Harry Stebbings In terms of evaluating people, I spoke to a mutual friend of ours, Mike Vernal at Sequoia before the show, and he said that he's always intimidated by maybe financially and operationally complex businesses like Opendoor, and he asked,…
  • ▶ 26:27 Julia DeWahl Mike Fernald has been amazing over at Sequoia. 4 times in the scene

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 Jul 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:08 Pat Grady Or our partner, Mike Fernall, who is a direct report to Zuckerberg at Facebook and ran a big engineering team there, he probably has a

20VC: If You Do Not Like VCs, You Have Not Worked With a Good One, How Andreesen Have Added The Same Level of Value As A Co-Founder, Why Market Is The First Thing To Consider When Angel Investing & Why Series A Is A Hiring Decision with Roger Dickey, Foun Sep 29, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:41 Roger Dickey I was talking to Sequoia partner, Mike Vernal, about how Sequoia thinks about Series A's, and I think this, this would apply to Andreessen as well. 2 times in the scene

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 Mar 13, 2017 · 1 mention

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