Doug Leone: Partnering with global market winners requires focusing on large economies
Doug Leone · 20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity · Sep 14, 2021 · at 31:00
Doug Leone is Global Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital. He explains the strategic rationale behind Sequoia's 2005 decision to expand into China and India rather than smaller markets.
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“Because if you want to be a partner to the most valuable companies in the world, which is our mission, it could only happen in large economies. It's not going to happen in Thailand, a small economy.”
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