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Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Horowitz Oh, if you're Sequoia, you had invested in Apple, and Cisco, and Yahoo, and Google, and so it's really hard to make up that ground if you're starting in 2009.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 1:03:49 Alex Rampell So we have the capacity to do lots and lots of deals, but if it's the best deal in the world, we need to assume that our counterparty is Roloff at Sequoia, or is, you know, a top partner at Excel, or Reid Hoffman at Greylock.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 1:05:47 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and, you know, the same thing is true for Sequoia.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 34:07 Jonathan Swanson I heard Sir Michael at Sequoia say something that was like, there's only one founder.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 45:48 Russ Fraden You would not be excited with that entrepreneur because you know that Sequoia is gonna fund a direct competitor to that company who's gonna keep hiring, who's gonna be happy with 10% margins, and is gonna destroy your company.
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 13:57 Leo Polovets Um, like, I think the kind of the worst form of consensus I've seen is like, oh, Sequoia and recent did this round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Martin Casado I mean, Sequoia very famously, you know, gave us a black eye and, you know, we couldn't raise.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 0:53 Ben Horowitz Uh, then, you know, if you can transition it, like, you know, 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
- ▶ 16:31 Ben Horowitz Considered smart money, and people want to follow, um, You know, I put us in that category, Sequoia.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 17:56 Dylan Patel I'm sure Sequoia is going to put out like a one trillion dollar problem, right?
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 9:26 Ben Horowitz Some of these guys had invested in like every good, I mean, if you look at some of the things Sequoia had invested in along the way, it's like quite a spectacular set of companies.
- ▶ 1:12:55 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, the Sequoia guys are always famous for complaining. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:50 Ben Horowitz Um, but we knew it was, it seemed like as soon as we could be, you know, in those days, Kleiner or Benchmark or Sequoia in a deal, um, that, that was a very clear indication that, that we could be top tier.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 6:55 Marc Andreessen And then he, he, he took an even, of course, an even more aggressive approach on that consistent with Sequoia's kind of method, um, which was basically like if the market's big enough, like basically if, if, if the market is really big,…
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:05:52 Balaji Srinivasan And, you know, what's interesting about this, by the way, just to put it on, uh, to relate to something else, Mike Moritz, uh, you know, famous investor at Sequoia, he's like quasi retired now, famous guy. 2 times in the scene
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 42:28 Alex Rampell So I, I would say the company, so this is what you have to get right, which is 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…
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 27:27 Fred Wilson The traditional angel seed, early stage VC, then growth VC market, I think, um, the explosion of capital is probably more in the later stage, you know, with the soft banks and Sequoia going out and raising however many billions they raised…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 1:04 Marc Andreessen You know, as an example, Sequoia was legendary in prioritizing market over team, right?
- ▶ 31:08 Marc Andreessen The founders of Sequoia Capital were Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, both of whom were famous chip, uh, executives, uh, and entrepreneurs.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 33:29 Martin Casado Sequoia had released their rest in peace, good time slide deck.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 4:01 Joe Montana We leveraged our relationships, like, Doug Leone, who obviously from Sequoia Capital was, coached my kids in baseball, and, ah, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 17:20 Anu Hariharan In fact, you know, Sequoia is quite an active investor and so is Axel and Lightspeed.
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 4:05 Matt Clifford Maybe the first British company to take funding from Sequoia and, you know, kind of people increasingly look around and they do see the Just Eats and the Kings and the Skypes and the things that happened in London.
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 6:18 Marc Benioff I was thrown out of, you know, Sequoia three times, US venture capital, three times.
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
- ▶ 34:43 Claire Kane Miller Sequoia did that slide deck, and I did a story with one of the Sequoia CEOs where I actually said, you know, what was it like that day? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 18:12 Ben Horowitz And so there were, like, these phenomenal firms like Sequoia or, uh, Benchmark or Greylock, um, but for an entrepreneur to really understand the nuances between, uh, the ones that were, uh, really great to work with or just people who,…
Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- ▶ 3:02 Margit Wennmachers It's, you know, it's Sequoia
- ▶ 5:05 Margit Wennmachers So if you're in the lucky position of being Sequoia, which is a fantastic firm, you can go like, oh, and then we did Apple, and then, you know,