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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77statements
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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: Magnificent Seven tech stocks will continue to thrive in AI
“At least in the initial stages of AI, where your data and distribution are so important, I think the mag seven will continue to do quite well.”
Jeff Wang: China's market will recover driven by founder quality
“It has to. I mean, The level of just pure entrepreneurship, the level of just the founder quality, how smart and aggressive they are. It's just remarkable. And I just don't think that goes away.”
Wang: Preserving optionality is the most expensive mistake young professionals make
“I think that optionality is the most expensive thing you can buy. So both financial options, but also more importantly, life options. So too many young people spend too much effort focused on preserving optionality in lieu of actually making decisions. So I fi…”
Wang: SCGE internal employee surveys turned 'downright awful' in 2022
“The initial, I'd say right post COVID, the surveys were very positive. You know, everyone's super happy. You know, everyone's feeling fulfilled. They're doing good work. And then you can see the surveys just getting worse and worse. And then in 20, 22, they're…”
Wang: Tech CapEx is unprecedented due to $150B Big Tech cash flow
“You have never seen this level of investment because I think if you roll back to 1999, for example, the, you didn't have this mag seven that was throwing off, you know, one hundred and fifty billion of free cash flow and you can go invest gobs and gobs of mone…”
Wang: Other companies and VCs sought deals with Windsurf before Cognition merger
“When Scott, when I talked to Scott, it was just like, Hey, this kind of makes sense. Like there was other companies. That were interested. There was actually VCs that wanted to invest. But Scott, as a person with Russell, and then I was with Graham just talkin…”
Wang: Channel partners are closing seven-figure deals for Windsurf
“Some of our partner partners have already started bringing in seven figure deals even without even trying the product.”
Wang: Palantir's greatest advantage was convincing top talent to build enterprise Java
“I think the Palantir's greatest competitive advantage was the fact that they managed to convince Really, really smart people to work on enterprise Java applications.”
Wang: Early analytics products failed to connect specific user behaviors to retention
“They had tried a bunch of other tools out there and, you know, they were fine, but like they didn't ask, actually answer the key question that they wanted to answer, which was, Hey, how does this particular behavior, you know, seeing errors, In your speech rec…”
Wang: Analytics startups handle unnatural data scale relative to early revenue
“Analytics more so than, you know, your traditional SaaS company or traditional consumer company has quite a bit of
You know, infrastructure slash software challenges to it. Like even at the time when I joined up with them, even though there were very few custo…”
Offering 10 million free monthly events cost Amplitude $20 per account
“So ten million events, you know, fully utilized at the time. That would have cost us there's ten million events a month, to be clear. That would have cost us 20 dollars a month for a fully utilized account.”
Most early Amplitude sales leads were existing Mixpanel customers
“And so like, you know, the vast majority of our leads in the early days came from existing Xpanel customers.”
Wang: Founders should never tell investors they have no secret sauce
“When people used to ask me, like, what's your secret sauce? They'd be like, oh, we don't really have a secret sauce. Like, that's a bad answer. Like, don't say that. Don't tell anybody that. Just say you have a secret sauce. It's like, yeah, we're the Smart en…”
Amplitude suffered zero customer churn after a 10-day database outage
“We actually end up with no churn, which was incredible on the part of our customer success team at the time, in particular, the relationship that they'd built, the communication that they came up with to, you know, really, you know, we sent a very, very heartf…”
Amplitude signed ByteDance as a customer for $20K/month in 2016
“As a customer in 2016 for 20,000 dollars a month, and they were sending yeah, not Douyin, not the TikTok equivalent, because that was too big, but like they had a couple of other apps that were quite large in China, and they became one of our largest customers…”
Wang: SCGE allocates 70% of research to themes, 30% to companies
“For us, 70% of our research process is actually up front on the theme, and only 30% on the actual company.”
Wang: SCGE manages $9B across two-thirds public and one-third private investments
“We had fifty million of internal capital. We now manage about nine billion of mostly external LP capital, but that internal capital amount is also now about a billion. The portfolio is about two thirds public and then one third private. And that one third priv…”
Wang: SCGE shorts companies to express long-side disruptive themes, not find fraud
“So we are not looking for frauds. We're not looking for valuation arbitrage. We're looking to further express a disruptive thematic viewpoint that we hold on the long side, albeit on the short side.”
Wang: Public tech markets exhibit power law returns without needing heavy leverage
“You could take leverage, but then you're taking more volatility and I just don't think in technology where you already have a lot of beta, you already have a lot of volatility. You don't need to take a lot of you don't need to take a lot of leverage, especiall…”
Wang: SCGE has had only one down year in 15 years
“Now we've been in business now, 15 years. We've had one down year over that 15 year timeframe.”
Wang: Shopify is one of SCGE's biggest winning investments
“So Shopify is has been one of our biggest winners. It is also one of my bigger regrets in terms of post COVID.”
Wang: Post-COVID e-commerce growth reverted to pre-pandemic trend line
“One thing that we got wrong is a lot of things return back to pre-COVID. Humans don't really change that much or they change more slowly. And so e-commerce really returned back to the pre-COVID trend line.”
Wang: SCGE assigns separate partners as devil's advocates on controversial deals
“One thing that we will do is we will have a fresh underwrite from a different partner where you have a devil's advocate position.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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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 → |