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: Crossover Investing Market Will Improve as IPO Window Reopens
“And so I do think the crossover market is getting more attractive and it's getting more attractive. It's just one tourist exit and two as the IPO markets open up again.”
Wang: 99% of private companies cannot stay private via secondaries indefinitely
“I think there may be a certain set of companies out there that can pull off what you're talking about before. 99% of the companies out there. I think that's really difficult.”
Wang: SCGE targets steady-state private exposure of 20% to 25%
“I think closer to 20 to 25% would be more comfortable because then that gives us an opportunity to add. I think If we are focused primarily on the public markets, let's say if we had 50% of the portfolio private, that would feel too illiquid to me. So 20 to 25…”
Wang: VC and PE firms launching public funds historically fail
“The history of venture PE firms launching public funds has not been a good one.”
Wang: AI will rapidly cause massive disruption in call centers
“I think there is going to be massive disruption, for example, in call centers, and I don't think that's going to take a lot of time.”
Wang: US and Canada generate two-thirds of global software revenue
“If I look at most software companies, you're probably Two thirds kind of US Canada in terms of revenue contribution and then one third everything else.”
Jeff Wang: Subsiding competition in India has enabled Zomato profitability
“I think one of the things that we've seen in India is that that brutal level of competition that you saw actually in the U S right. So you saw in the U S in the zero interest rate environment that has subsided in India as well. And so that's allowed companies …”
Wang: Doug Leone excels at enterprise talent while Moritz excels at consumer
“I think Doug probably has a better nose for enterprise talent and Michael for consumer talent.”
Wang: Disregarding Google at Stanford taught me not to underestimate disruption
“Probably not taking Google more seriously. So I was at Stanford at the time of its founding. I was even a section leader for Marissa Mayer for a computer science class where she was a lecturer. And so I heard about it from her too. And I just thought to myself…”
Wang: Public market advantage is measured in months, not years
“I think it's important to be early, but if I think about the public markets, we're talking about not years, but months, right? If you are, because the public markets price something so quickly, if you figure it out last year, that hyperscaler CapEx was going t…”
Wang: Prior to merger, Devin was building an IDE and Windsurf an agent
“We actually looked at each other's roadmaps, like product roadmaps and the Devon team was actually looking to build an ID and our team was actually looking to build a remote agent.”
Wang: Windsurf shifted to 100% channel partners in February
“We made the decision to go a hundred percent partners back in February.”
Sonalight users churned after a second speech-to-text failure
“Through their analytics, they saw that, you know, if users encountered errors or, you know, basically miss, miss translations or whatever of their speech to text they were Only a little bit tolerant of that. So like, the first time it fails, that's cool. Peopl…”
Wang: Sonalight relied on Google Voice API rather than proprietary ML
“They're not machine learning researchers. In fact, they were just using the Google Voice API to do the speech recognition”
Wang: Amplitude had $10K to $20K in ARR in early 2014
“I think I want to say when I joined, there was, you know, between 10 and 20 K of ARR. And so not zero, you know, not a lot, but not zero.”
Amplitude struggled to pitch VCs until adopting a technical Series C pitch
“I would say it wasn't until, like, our Series C, maybe, that we actually got a pitch that kind of resonated, and it ended up being, like, a very technical pitch, where we talked about, like, complex distributed joins, and I would draw, like, architecture diagr…”
Wang: Amplitude grew from $1M ARR in 2014 to $4.5M in 2015
“A million ARR in 2014. At the end of 2015, we were at like four and a half or so.”
Wang: Amplitude finished 2016 with over $13M in ARR
“The year ended up being great. We ended up over 13. Million in AR.”
Wang: Coursera was Amplitude's biggest 2014 contract at $10K monthly
“The second deal that really stands out was Coursera, who also closed in, in 2014. They paid us, they were the biggest deal at the time. They paid us 10,000 dollars a month. And so, you know, that was like, you know, probably, you know, like close to half or, y…”
Jeff Wang took a 70% pay cut to join SCGE in 2010
“On the flip side though I was taking a 70% pay cut and there was a real risk of failure, right? Most hedge fund launches don't survive.”
Wang: SCGE re-underwrites every portfolio position during quarterly reviews
“And so one of the things that we do is we have a quarterly review of the entire portfolio where we do a re underwrite of every single position, because unlike the venture world, we can buy and sell.”
Wang: Sequoia missed Shopify in private markets and first invested post-IPO
“Shopify was not a Sequoia portfolio company. It's a company that we admired in the private markets, but we did not invest in the private markets. And our first chance to invest is when they go public, right?”
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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 → |