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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 51:08 Jason Lemkin Even if it's a conflict or Sequoia fine, you know, at the margin, I'll take Sequoia over Lemkin ventures because you know, we, we, it sort of helps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:22 Jason Lemkin And it's not Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 26:15 Harry Stebbings I think Sierra are running behind them chasing, and they're doing a decent job of it, but they've got Brett and they've got Sequoia and Green Oaks and every royalty of Silicon Valley 2 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 38:01 Jason Lemkin and I called it the Postmates effect, uh, where I think, I think it was Sequoia said,
- ▶ 51:42 Harry Stebbings And when you have Benchmark and Sequoia, great talent wants to join you.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 0:07 Julien Bek Everyone at Sequoia is a hunter.
- ▶ 0:20 Harry Stebbings Yeah, he's a partner at Sequoia. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Harry Stebbings But I want to start because I think a lot of people will hear you now and think, wow, Sequoia partner, wow.
- ▶ 4:18 Harry Stebbings Um, anyway, I want to dive into Sequoia a little bit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Julien Bek Everyone at Sequoia is a hunter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 Harry Stebbings There are many different personalities within Sequoia.
- ▶ 16:43 Julien Bek Brought me into Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:20 Harry Stebbings Does it get really tough when you're at Sequoia, because the upside just needs to be bigger than other funds? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:59 Harry Stebbings Sequoia just pays up for deals. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Harry Stebbings What I see is a more liquid secondary market than ever before, which is also extremely frothy, and because of my not being Sequoia,
- ▶ 27:20 Harry Stebbings At Sequoia, you have a weekly IC meeting. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:33 Julien Bek Um, they all expect to be pitching Sequoia, and they want to tell the story of their company, but what I want to hear is the story of the individual, and for that, I start sharing about my story.
- ▶ 42:06 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, like, Max at Legora, um, I know you're at Sequoia, but Team Harvey at Sequoia, but, um, Max is like an aggressive Swede. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:52 Harry Stebbings Like, this is, this fucking Pat Grady, like, leads Sequoia now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 unnamed speaker Listen, we've covered a lot about Sequoia and what makes Sequoia what it is.
- ▶ 1:18:48 Harry Stebbings The best agent company outside of Sequoia. 5 times in the scene
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 1:09:40 Harry Stebbings Today, they've announced they've raised seven hundred million at twenty-one billion from Jane Street, Kleiner, Sequoia, Andreessen.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 39:11 Harry Stebbings Valar Atomics triples to six billion dollar prices Sequoia bets on nuclear for AI. 2 times in the scene
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 30:50 Harry Stebbings Etched is the challenger to NVIDIA in many respects, and they raised three hundred million dollars Series C led by Sequoia, um, and the team there, with Jane Street, Andreessen, SK Hynix coming in, um,
- ▶ 1:16:51 Jason Lemkin Just like a, just like Andreessen doesn't want to be embarrassed that they didn't see a deal like Sequoia.
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 38:06 Harry Stebbings And I think this will be the worst performing category of venture in this vintage because firms like you and Founders Fund and Benchmark and Sequoia and Excel, and the list goes on and on, are so effective with a very good seed product…
- ▶ 1:00:12 Matt Murphy Um, hard to say, not, not say Sequoia as well, but anyway, since you asked for one and then growth funds a little trickier, um, you know, uh, there's so many great full stack firms. 2 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:10:02 Harry Stebbings And, and, and you know what, on top of that, I'm worried you can forgive me for going off on this ramp, but you know, Brandon at McCaw has mouthed off, uh, and I say that nicely, uh, but mouthed off on Twitter about Sequoia's tranche… 3 times in the scene
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:24 Harry Stebbings Four hundred million at a 3.8 billion dollar valuation led by Index, Kleiner, Sequoia, Dimension.
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:34 Harry Stebbings A lot of founders are like, you know what, the best people don't care, they're there for the mission, they're there for, and I'm always like, I promise you, if you have Kleiner, or you have DST, or you have Sequoia, ah, great candidates…
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:29 unnamed speaker It's, it's like, you know, I'm willing to bet there are more, if you check Google Trends, he gets more searches than Sequoia.
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:09 Harry Stebbings I remember David Kahn from Sequoia.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:29 Harry Stebbings Like, I think that richer investors make better investors, and you're like, like, Sequoia are focused on upside maximization. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:10 Harry Stebbings They'll go, oh, it's a Sequoia-backed company, oh, it's a Founders Fund-backed company, it must be hot.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:47 Harry Stebbings You got Sequoia very, very early on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:47 unnamed speaker So it was a theoretical physicist, like I remember this guy's name, but he's on this podcast talking about how he sold a company for a billion dollars, and was an investor at this place called Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:54 Harry Stebbings We go to the Sequoia HQ. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:04 Harry Stebbings Would you tell founders to take a discount for Sequoia? 2 times in the scene
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:09 Brendan Foody I think that the Sequoia article that services are the new software resonated a lot and that these software boats are, are whittling away and it's the ability to layer services on top of software to meet the customer where they're at and…
The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:17 Nico Laqua Apple, Apple was invested in by Sequoia, but I, I think it'd be very unlikely that Steve Jobs would ever go, you know, flexing that Apple was a Sequoia company.
- ▶ 32:04 Nico Laqua And, um, you know, the, the, the, the thing is like in the fund context, you know, Andreessen or, or, or Kleiner or even Sequoia back in the day,
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22:15 Chad Peets Um, Sean McGuire, um, from Sequoia.
Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:34 Harry Stebbings Green Oats, Sequoia, Altimeter, Dragoneer.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:45 Josh Browder Um, one example would be Founders Fund or Sequoia, uh, or people like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:14 Harry Stebbings My theory around this is like a Sequoia, for example, is not worried about an LP questioning their investment strategy. 4 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:19 Harry Stebbings But if I were to do that, that would mean joining Andreessen Horowitz or joining Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:28 Harry Stebbings You get a Sequoia partner to LinkedIn message a CEO.
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:01 Harry Stebbings Thrive Eternal, I didn't want to say this, but it looks remarkably similar to Sequoia's evergreen fund in terms of the hold periods. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:45 Harry Stebbings Sequoia baby who makes money from Anthropic with a 17 and a half percent carry and a one percent upfront fee. 3 times in the scene
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:36 Amjad Masad Some people will say, like, I think Sequoia at some point said it's like the labor TAM, right?
- ▶ 44:02 Harry Stebbings He was the CEO of Workday, and now he's at Sequoia as a partner, but he was CEO for a long time, so, and he was at Adobe for many, many years.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:06 Rory O'Driscoll In the part of the cycle where the big guys want to win, and want to catch up, and want to be relevant in the space, then this kind of exit can happen, even if the fundamentals aren't great, and a gross margin, I mean, Sequoia, whom I…
- ▶ 1:06:04 Harry Stebbings Sequoia four days ago raises seven billion dollar growth round growth fund. 3 times in the scene
Jake Paul: Traditional VC is Toast & Attention is More Valuable than Cash · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:17 Harry Stebbings You constantly are on a treadmill, and you say about your Jack Altman's going to, yeah, and Jack's got a fucking podcast, and so does Sequoia.
The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:02 Harry Stebbings Sequoia.
ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:06 Harry Stebbings Well, I, yes, I know Sequoia are in it very early, and it all looked great, but it wasn't what it is today for a couple of years, actually.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:01 Harry Stebbings We, we, we had big news from Sequoia this week for context. 6 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:57 Harry Stebbings The amount of Sequoia rounds where it's like, oh, you know, X raises money from square five billion. 4 times in the scene
Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Prior to cyber stars, Gilly spent over 15 years as a general partner at Sequoia, where he invests in some of the world's best cybersecurity companies.
- ▶ 2:47 Gili Raanan You know, let's take our, you know, favorite friends from, uh, Sequoia Capital, or, uh, Andreessen Benchmark,
- ▶ 10:50 Harry Stebbings I mean, now we have 10, we, we both love, you know, your Sequoias and your Andreessen's, and we have ten billion dollar funds.
- ▶ 17:44 Gili Raanan Palo Alto Networks, or ServiceNow, who are, you know, part of the Sequoia Capital portfolio, so I had access to, to the numbers, and, you know, this is, this is, you know, this is insane pace, what we've demonstrated.
- ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings So funny, I remember speaking to Pat Grady about the great companies that Score invest in, and I was saying about, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:01 Gili Raanan The decade I spent with Sequoia Capital was formation, you know, period for me, and
Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:49 Harry Stebbings I saw a tweet, it was actually an announcement that someone posted, and Sequoia were buying thirty-five million bucks of Figma stock. 3 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:33 Gokul Rajaram It is not all Sequoia money, but the whole thing burned to the ground and 2 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:42 Harry Stebbings You know, obviously Sequoia have the evergreen vehicle, which I think Blunt, there's been a lot of talk about.
- ▶ 53:08 Miles Clements The best board member I've ever seen in action, my friend Ravi at Sequoia is a very good board member. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:38 Harry Stebbings It was, it was Sequoia, and it's like.
- ▶ 40:09 Harry Stebbings If you are Sequoia.
- ▶ 42:56 Mitchell Green I truly think that's why Sequoia and Benchmark are great and Index are great because they help founders and entrepreneurs recruit amazing talent and, and, and people want to work for those funds portfolio companies.
- ▶ 59:31 Harry Stebbings Kingmaking is when you get Sequoia and Andreessen and then Benchmark and then da-da-da-da-da-da. 2 times in the scene
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:34 Lucas Swisher if Kotu and Sequoia and Kleiner all pile into a company that it's over?
- ▶ 52:58 Harry Stebbings You've got Pat Grady at Sequoia, you've got David George, and then you've got 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:57 Lucas Swisher I would say Sequoia and Benchmark.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:20 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Like, I have a funny story where, like, I was down in Brazil meeting David when he was just leaving Sequoia, starting, and, and, you know, we had a fantastic conversation.
- ▶ 42:20 Sebastian Siemiatkowski Look, I've worked with him so many, it's a funny story how we ended up working with him, because at that point of time, uh, Sequoia, it was a guy called Chris Olsen, which is amazing, still a friend of mine, who was at Sequoia, and he did… 10 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:08:06 Harry Stebbings Waymo raises a monster sixteen billion round at a hundred and ten billion valuation, thirteen billion coming from Google, with three coming from Sequoia, DST, Dragoneer. 2 times in the scene
Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
- ▶ 34:04 Oren Zeev Like Andreessen, like, uh, Sequoia, like maybe Lightspeed, um, who are bringing a lot to the table and can do things that smaller VCs cannot, um, including myself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:28 Oren Zeev If you're a fund that's, let's, let's say Sequoia, for example, they know that they can raise any time, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:22 Oren Zeev Uh, they only took Sequoia money because they wanted Sequoia, uh, and they later took benchmark money again because they wanted benchmark, and, uh, but, uh, so there was, so
- ▶ 1:00:54 Harry Stebbings Does having Sequoia on your cap table move the needle for a company, do you find? 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Jason Lemkin Why isn't Andreessen in Sequoia and Lightspeed in this deal? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:14 Harry Stebbings It's a 12 x valuation step up to where they raised at a billion dollars from Sikora at the start of the year.
- ▶ 1:06:04 Harry Stebbings Um, Ethos, the institute provider, um, funded by your Sequoias, your Excels, provider of life insurance, um, going public today when this show airs on the 29th, um, valued at 1.3 billion, high end of the range.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 25:50 Harry Stebbings For me, it's Pat Grady at Sequoia.
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:23 Jason Lemkin Andreessen, Sequoia put in two billion.
- ▶ 1:10:14 Harry Stebbings Uh, Sequoia are going big into Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:17 Rory O'Driscoll The final just comment, because, you know, you had it in the Sequoia doing Anthropic and Sequoia doing 11 Labs. 3 times in the scene
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:02 Winston Weinberg There was, um, there's a time I was talking to someone from Sequoia and they had been living with other founders, uh, during COVID.
- ▶ 15:40 Winston Weinberg Um, the vast majority of our customers don't know who Sequoia, A-sixteen, Z, or any of those people even are, right?
- ▶ 1:03:07 Harry Stebbings Like, when you go into a Sequoia, and you have a pitch to partnership. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:27 Harry Stebbings You have Sequoia and Andreessen on the cap table. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:26 unnamed speaker I remember I had one founder that was pretty hot who was bummed that, uh, you know, he, he, he, he got a term sheet from Andreessen and not Sequoia, but that don't happen today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:50 unnamed speaker Even Sequoia has the issue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:43 Harry Stebbings Multiple rounds before anything came public, all swallowed by Sequoia and Andreessen. 2 times in the scene
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:02 Alex Rampell I mean, Sequoia used to brag about, I think it was like, 20% of the market cap of the Nasdaq was Sequoia companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:06 Alex Rampell Nobody wants to, Sequoia doesn't want to do it.
Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:35 Harry Stebbings So for me, it's Pat Grady, who's the head of Sequoia.
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
- ▶ 38:04 Raz Herzberg That's where you mentioned Doug from Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
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