Don Valentine
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 12 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (9), Bill Krauss (2), Ben Horowitz (1)
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2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Don Valentine, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Andreessen: Sequoia prioritized market size over founding team quality
“Sequoia was legendary in prioritizing market over team, right? And so Don Valentine has, if you go online and Google Don Valentine's talks, he talks a lot about how the key to success of a startup is to land yourself in a giant market. Like, Land yourself in a…”
Apr 29, 2025
Andreessen: Original 1950s–70s VCs were former business operators
“A lot of the original VCs who built the firms originally back in the fifties, sixties, seventies were actually operators, right? So Tom Perkins and Gene Kleiner had been operators, Don Valentine, Pierre Lamont had been operators the founders of Greylock had be…”
Aug 23, 2025 positive
Horowitz: Sequoia successfully handed off leadership across two generations
“Sequoia transitioned it from Don Valentine to, you know, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone and Jim Goetz, and that worked, you know, that transition worked well, so they were able To kind of take the original culture and build on it and kind of grow it, you know, 20 …”