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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:25 David Rosenthal It's Leonie's quote.
  • ▶ 46:01 David Rosenthal By frame for all this story was Sequoia, so this story is very different than Sequoia, but, uh, we interviewed Doug Leone, uh, who was, you know, one of the, the, I guess, two stewards ago of Sequoia, and he told us that after the dot-com…

Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24:30 Ben Gilbert David, do you remember, this is way back in acquired history, what Doug Leone told us,
  • ▶ 1:24:49 Ben Gilbert He comes to Doug, and they're running Sequoia Capital together at the time, and he says, Doug, we've never paid so much for so little.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired Oct 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:35 David Rosenthal The great story behind it is that, uh, when Mike was taking over for Don Valentine with, with Doug, he was sitting and looking at Sequoia's returns and he was looking at fund three or four, I think it was four, maybe that had Cisco in it.

Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:35:48 David Senra Did you listen to Doug Leone on, I know you guys had him on your show, but did you hear him on Invest Like The Best?

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired Oct 4, 2022 · 7 mentions

Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:40 Ben Gilbert On the Sequoia one, I was thinking about Doug talking about burning cigarettes in his arms, and he wouldn't flinch.
  • ▶ 1:49:11 David Rosenthal He took over for Leone, right?
  • ▶ 2:00:50 David Rosenthal Don Valentine was the CEO, and then Mike Moritz was CEO, and Leonie was COO.
  • ▶ 2:01:00 David Rosenthal Yes, there was someone who could make a call who could say, I'm taking time, as Doug talked about on our episode with him, Mike and I are taking time, we are going to travel to China, and we are going to go find the right partners for us…

Amazon.com · Acquired Aug 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26:33 Ben Gilbert And Mike Moritz came in and told Doug Leone, as Doug told it on our interview with him, even after making this investment, he's looking at Google and goes, we've never paid so much for so little.
  • ▶ 2:26:45 David Rosenthal Oh, I got that episode with Doug.

The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired Jun 20, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:38 Ben Gilbert Around the time that Mike Moritz and Doug Leone took over running Sequoia Capital from Don Valentine, Mike looked back on the performance of the past couple of Sequoia funds,
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