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Gupta: Sequoia Capital requires unanimous partner approval for all investments
“This is reinforced by things like unanimous decision-making, which means we all need to be bought in when we decide to partner with a company.”
Gupta: Sequoia allows founders to choose which partner joins their board
“When entrepreneurs ask somebody at Sequoia, hey, if I work with Sequoia, who will my board member be? And the answer is always the same, which is whoever you want. You get to choose.”
Gupta: Sequoia backed Stripe founders before they wrote any code
“At the time, Patrick and John at Stripe, when all they had was an idea and not a single line of code, because they were remarkable and they were daring.”
Gupta: Instacart lost $20 on every order during its early operations
“When we were losing 20 dollars on every order at Instacart, which we were at the beginning”
Gupta: Carl Eschenbach scaled VMware's revenue from $40 million to $6 billion
“Carl talk to you, who's scaled VMware from forty million in revenue to six billion.”