Michael Moritz

“Mike had the ability to dream broadly in ways that I've never seen before. He could answer the question better than anybody I've ever known. What if everything goes right? Not, oh, we're hedges and that, no, what if everything goes right? What can this busines…”

“Michael has transitioned out completely. Doug has stepped back from day-to-day investing, so he's no longer in partner meetings routinely, but he continues to serve on several boards.”

“While turnarounds are difficult in any circumstances, they are doubly difficult in a technology company.”

“Like you don't need to know technically what's going on to the nth degree, but you do need to know the people.”

“Famously, Kleiner and Sequoia end up splitting the deal, and Michael Moritz and John Doerr, the two most legendary VCs in the world, they team up, they join forces, they split the deal, and they both join the board of Google at the Series A.”

“Michael Morris invited me to his home, tried to convince me to sell the company.”

“There's a secret biography written by Michael Moritz of Don Valentine that's passed around in Sequoia and Sequoia founders have it too.”

“Michael still helps me write my quarterly letters to this day.”

“I think Doug probably has a better nose for enterprise talent and Michael for consumer talent.”

“I always remember seeing Michael Moritz speak, give a talk about Google in the early 2000, and there were all these founders there, and he puts his phone up to his face and pretends to talk, and then, like, walks out of the building, you know, and so nobody wo…”

“Michael Moritz. The Michael Moritz of Sequoia. He called me after I left Apple, and he said, guy, I have a company down here by Stanford. I want you to interview for the CEO position. And I said, Mike, what's the company's name? And he told me the name. I look…”

“You get to know someone not by looking at what, you know, the list, the inventory of their, ah, doings of their accomplishments. You get to know someone when you understand why they pick to do that. That would tell you much more about that person.”

“And if you look at, you know, sort of top hundred on the Midas list, for VCs, they started their careers sort of pre-thousand-twelve called versus post-thousand-twelve. Pre-thousand-twelve, there was definitely a large number of investors that were pure sort o…”

“While turnarounds are difficult in any circumstances, they are doubly difficult in a technology company.”

“Michael Moritz. Michael is amazing in so many ways that like I could write a book about Michael and what he's done for me and the support he's given me. And someday I will tell the stories of what really happened. And I think he genuinely very different to a l…”

“We had a handshake deal that night. So one business day turnaround.”

“He sent an email that had 20 Sequoia partners and team members, including Rulof, Doug Leone, Michael Morwitz, who all recorded a Loom talking about why they were so excited to join Loom on our journey.”