Jeff Wang
Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital Global Equities · Team Member, Windsurf. On 4 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Jeff Wang is the Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital Global Equities. He has invested $3 billion in private companies including Bytedance, SpaceX, and Stripe.
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7said about them ↓ Everything Jeff Wang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wang: SCGE goes long Nvidia and shorts moatless server hardware stocks
“We can go long NVIDIA and then we can short a bunch of the companies that I think don't have the depth of modes that NVIDIA has.”
Wang: Chinese companies have become less transparent over time
“It is, it has been more difficult for us to say invest in Chinese companies. And it's not just the macro, right? It's. It's these companies have been become less transparent with us over time.”
Wang: Google faces more threats today than ever before in its history
“I do think there are more threats on Google's business than there have been ever in the company's history.”
Wang: Only trim stocks when valuations get 18 months ahead of fundamentals
“I tell my team, don't tell me if, you know, ServiceNow is 10% too expensive. If we have a three to five year investment hold period, you know, 10%, if you get six months ahead yourself in terms of the pricing, it's not going to impact your IRR that much. Where…”
Wang: Hedge fund crossover 'tourists' have been wiped out of private markets
“Over the last few years, there have been a lot of tourists, as you know, a lot of tourists mostly on the hedge fund side who've dabbled in private markets and they've gotten burned. Those tourists are out of the market. We don't see them anymore.”
Wang: VC partners dictating public fund investments guarantees failure
“Now, when I speak to other VCP funds that reached out to me over the years to get advice about launching a similar effort They almost never want to give up control. They want to dictate the investing. And I just don't think that's a recipe for success.”
Wang: Claiming AI will eliminate software companies is a naive view
“That I hear now that software companies are going away, right? AI is going to write all, all software. And I just think that's a naive view.”
Wang: AI generates $15 billion in incremental EBIT for Meta
“We estimate that it's not just delivering revenue. I think it's already delivering about fifteen billion of incremental EBIT, EBIT for Meta, right?”
Wang: The world will ultimately have three to five AI foundation models
“So maybe there's three to five foundation models in the world. It's not going to be 10. It's not going to be 20.”
Wang: Windsurf employees received 10 to 12 poaching emails during merger weekend
“And I don't think it was reported, but like time was not our friend. We had customers like starting to email like, Hey, what's the, what's going to happen to the company. And we had recruiters. I think almost every employee probably got like 10 or 12 recruitin…”
Jeff Wang Confirms Cognition Is Acquiring Windsurf
“I mean, this is a real acquisition. We are being acquired by cognition.”
Mixpanel's list price was 100x Amplitude's internal costs
“So I remember we did some analysis of, you know, kind of mixed panels list prices at the time versus our internal costs, and the difference was a factor of a hundred.”
A structurally lower price profile is a massive competitive advantage
“If you have, if you can make it like a qualitatively different price profile, I think, you know, that's absolutely as much of a competitive advantage as product quality or anything like that.”
Wang: Being 20% to 30% cheaper is not enough to drive switching
“Being, you know, 20, 30% cheaper, like, that's not enough to really get people to, like, think about it.”
Founders gain massive leverage by strategically exaggerating their company narrative
“There are some domains, you know, marketing, fundraising, where I think you get kind of disproportionate leverage out of your ability to storytell and exaggerate in ways that like, not trying to lie, but like trying to communicate your point in a, you know, ag…”
Wang: Burnout comes from lacking an energizing environment, not excessive hours
“You burn out, not because you're just spending too many hours on something you burn out because like, you don't have that sort of energy sustaining environment that allows you to kind of go beyond what you might expect yourself to be able to do.”
Wang: Sequoia considered shutting down its global equities fund in 2016
“And so there's this crucible moment in 2016 where Sequoia decided to part ways with the original PM and actually consider shutting down the business entirely.”
Wang: Only one-third of SCGE's portfolio consists of Sequoia venture companies
“So there is a portion of our business that, our portfolio that is Prior or existing Sequoia portfolio companies, right? That's maybe about a third of the portfolio”
Wang: SCGE should have trimmed portfolio positions more aggressively in 2022
“I think 2022 was a period where a lot of these stocks got ahead of themselves and we should have, we had to trim, we trimmed a bunch, but we should have trimmed more.”
Wang: SCGE is prioritizing public markets over privates due to deal quality
“And so right now, for example, we do not see for SCGE as many opportunities in the private markets And so most of our attention is actually on the public markets.”
Wang: Tech IPO market will reopen in late 2024 or 2025
“I do expect the IPO markets to open, say back half of this year into next year.”
Wang: Tech companies can no longer IPO with high burn rates
“The, you know, the days of rule 40, you're going out at 60 -20, those are gone. You have to be a 30 and 10, 40 and zero kind of growing into a nice profitability curve in order to get public.”
Wang: SCGE held Twilio too long, missing out on legendary returns
“So Twilio initially was a very good investment for us and actually ended up being a decent investment overall. It could have been a legendary investment. We held on for too long.”
Wang: SCGE takes carry once every three years instead of annually
“We have also a three-year incentive crystallization. And so what that means is most hedge funds, as you probably know, just take carry at the end of each calendar year. We take carry once every three years, and we also vest ourselves over a three year period.”
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| 20VCLEDGER | Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital Global Equities | 1 | 48 | 86% 6/7 | full record on 20VC → |
 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | 1 | 23 | 75% 3/4 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → | |
| LATENT SPACELEDGER | Team Member, Windsurf | 1 | 3 | — | full record on Latent Space → |
 TBPNLEDGER | Windsurf | 1 | 3 | 100% 1/1 | full record on TBPN → |