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Founders should always accept an investment offer from Sequoia Capital
“I think it's really hard if you get Sequoia to offer you money and be on your cap table and have that amazing brand halo effect to not take it, and I think someone always should.”
Max Altman calls Keith Rabois the smartest non-family VC investor
“Keith Raboy. I mean, whatever people want to say about him, I think he's extremely smart.”
Max Altman calls Parker Conrad the best sales and product leader
“He's crazy, but he's the best salesperson and the best product person that I've ever met in my life.”
Max Altman calls H-1B restrictions the worst US tech policy decision
“Maybe, maybe the worst decision related to tech that this administration has had. Like, first off, why would you not want an amazing engineer immigrating to your country? Just like, straight up, we want all of the best, smartest people going to work in our cou…”
Altman: Venture capital is a cutthroat market, not a collaborative environment
“I think that it is, people say it's this sort of chummy, like, collaborative thing where we're all kumbaya and having fun, and then, like, You know, you get to it, and someone just, like, elbows you out of the way. It's not. It's a competitive market. We're al…”