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Sequoia Capital

also referred to as: sequoia

7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2018 by Margit Wennmachers · said 33 times in 22 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Aug 14, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Top venture capital firm rankings rarely change
“If you have paid any attention, the ranking of VC firms doesn't usually shift. Around a lot. It's, you know, it's Sequoia and it's Kleiner and this and that, and this is not really, it's not easy to break into.”
Margit Wennmachers Aug 14, 2018 ▶ 2:52 Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Benioff: Sequoia and USVP rejected Salesforce three times in 1999
“No venture capitalist would give us money. We raised all the money privately. I was thrown out of, you know, Sequoia three times, US venture capital, three times.”
Marc Benioff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:13 a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Clifford: Songkick was likely the first UK startup backed by Sequoia
“Songkick's a great example of that. Maybe the first British company to take funding from Sequoia”
Matt Clifford Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:03 a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Montana: Sequoia's Doug Leone is a better investor than baseball coach
“Doug Leone, who obviously from Sequoia Capital was, coached my kids in baseball, and, ah, Better investor than coach, I'll say that.”
Joe Montana Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:01 a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
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…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:04 a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
Mar 9, 2019
Insight
Rampell: Slow corporate decision-making guarantees adverse selection in venture deals
“If you take nine weeks to make a decision and like, you know, we'll decide within a day or Sequoia or Benchmark or some other great venture capital firm, we'll decide within a day, like you're not going to get good deals if you take nine weeks.”
Alex Rampell Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 42:28 3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
Aug 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
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 …”
Ben Horowitz Aug 23, 2025 ▶ 0:53 Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
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