Don Valentine
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 52 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2025 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 33 mentions in 7 episodes 5 per episode
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- Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
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Mar 28, 2022 positive
Rosenthal: LSI Logic IPO delivered historic $153M return to Sequoia
“LSI logic, which had just gotten public and we've talked about it on the show made Don Valentine and Sequoia the then largest venture return in an IPO in history, maybe the largest venture return ever in history when they went public of a hundred and fifty thr…”
Jun 20, 2022
Rosenthal: Sequoia invested $150k in Apple and sold entirely for $6M
“Ah, Don invested a 150,000 in Apple computer in 1977.
And then, 18 months later, they had an opportunity to realize one of the greatest venture returns of all time.
They made a forty-X on that investment.
They sold their shares for six
Million dollars before t…”