Shaun Maguire
Partner, Sequoia Capital. On 3 shows, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on seed and early-stage tech investments, including SpaceX and The Boring Company. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech and previously co-founded cybersecurity firm Expanse.
3shows
5appearances
100statements
18resolved
8supported
5contradicted
44%fully supported
111said about them ↓ Everything Shaun Maguire said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shaun Maguire claims Iran has recently obtained nuclear weapons
“Allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons.”
Maguire: SolarWinds hack could have directly altered 2020 election results
“There was an extremely large hack happening during the election called SolarWinds, which my company was deeply involved in investigating and remediating, and there are other cyber experts that disagree with me, but I personally believe that SolarWinds could ha…”
Maguire: Harvard introduced remedial math because admissions standards dropped
“Harvard last year implemented their first ever remedial math because there are people coming in that don't know algebra because they dropped the admission standards.”
Maguire: Modern DEI paradigms are a toxic cancer for society
“The modern paradigm of DEI is toxic, woke ideology that is literally cancer for society.”
Maguire: Colombian and Venezuelan drug cartels report directly to Iran
“Like the cartels in Colombia and Venezuela basically report into Iran. Iran handles most of the money laundering for them and coordination processing of a lot of like the precursor chemicals, stuff like that.”
Maguire: War is now required to strip Iran of nuclear weapons
“If you want to go the path of removing nuclear weapons from Iran, then we're at the point now where there has to be war.”
Maguire: Trump J6 incitement was no worse than Hillary's 2016 denial
“I don't think that Trump did much more to incite the January six insurrection than what Hillary did of denying the election results.”
Maguire: BLM and Antifa are more extreme than the far right
“The BLM riots were, and like anything that Antifa does is way more extreme than what the far right has done seriously.”
Shaun Maguire: Equal outcome equity is communism and will destroy the West
“And the definition of equity Or like the widely accepted definition is, is not creating equal opportunities. It's to have equal outcomes. That is insane. Like the idea that, that like, no matter what someone's work ethic is, or no matter like what their talent…”
San Diego Persian Jewish dentist was killed without media coverage
“A Persian Jewish dentist who my family knows in San Diego was literally stabbed to death by a former patient named Mohammed, like just randomly, like it was not reported and it was not reported as a hate crime, et cetera.”
Maguire: Ukraine should agree to ceasefire and cede territory to Russia
“So I actually think that the thing that's in Ukraine's interest is to have a ceasefire and unfortunately seed some of the Eastern territory You know, and, but have some, there needs to be some security guarantee with teeth that is not NATO, but it's something …”
Maguire: Space-based data centers will become absolutely giant
“The public doesn't yet Like, the public hasn't yet gotten to see the full argument, like, hasn't gotten to see the math, but I'll just say, like, I think the math is really compelling, and I think data centers in space are, and I was on TBPN maybe six months a…”
Maguire: Top AI models outperform average top-five PhD students
“I think we've definitely hit the point where in most fields of math or physics or computer science, like the best models are better than the average PhD student at like a top five research program”
Maguire: It is easier to concentrate talent in Israel than at Stanford
“It's much easier to concentrate talent in Israel than it is as like a Stanford spin out.”
Maguire: Dual use is a mirage, investors accept pure government startups
“I think dual use is kind of a mirage.
Like it's,
It can be great, but I think you have to, I think we're entering an era where investors are okay with
Just government sale companies.
Single use.”
Maguire: Starlink's 10x cost advantage will replace subsea fiber optics
“Almost all long-range data movements in the future is gonna be done via Starlink, in my opinion. I think Starlink has, like, a 10 X plus cost advantage per gigabyte for long-haul data transmission compared to, say, putting a fiber optic cable line under the oc…”
Maguire: Mars colonization spinoffs will be history's most profitable endeavor
“I am now at the point where I actually, I really believe that Mars is going to Be like one of the biggest profit generating endeavors in history, and not necessarily, not like from the direct Like building a city on Mars, but from all the indirect things”
Maguire: MBS is a fantastic reformer modernizing Saudi Arabia rapidly
“From my perspective, Saudi Arabia, despite what the media says, Saudi Arabia has been modernizing at an unbelievable rate. I'm personally a big fan of MBS. I think he's been a fantastic reformer.”
Maguire: Trump was the best modern president on Russia, Iran, China
“If you look at what actually happened, I think that Trump was the best president in the modern era. At dealing with Russia, the best at dealing with Iran, the best at dealing with China.”
Shaun Maguire: Iran Fears Trump's Retaliation and Will Act Before Election
“From an Iranian perspective, if they knew that Kamala Harris was going to win, then they will happily wait six months for her to be in office and then go do whatever they want to do. If they think that Trump is going to win, then they need to do whatever they …”
Maguire: Mail-in ballot harvesting will be the dominant election variable
“But I think a, candidly, I think a, Big factor in that is just how much better the Democrats are at the kind of mail-in ballot, ballot harvesting groundwork. Like, I think that will be the dominant variable in the selection by far.”
Maguire: Multiple people tried to get me fired from Sequoia Capital
“Many, many different people tried to get me fired in many different ways.”
Maguire: Climate activists targeted Sequoia over Doug Leone's Trump support
“In my Sequoia inbox, the last 12 hours probably 20 Like climate people have emailed most Sequoia partners saying that like Doug Leone is problematic for supporting Trump and that Trump has anti-climate positions and they don't know how they can support, like h…”
The other half of the tape: Shaun Maguire's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 105 times in 37 episodes across the shows. 6 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 28John Coogan 25Jordi Hays 18Molly O'Shea 9Julien Bek 8Matan Grinberg 4Chad Peets 3Shervin Pishevar 1
Statements about Shaun Maguire, by other people (6)
Lemkin: Shaun Maguire will leave Sequoia Capital in 2025
“I'll take the bet that he leaves this year.”
Hays: Sequoia Will Make Money on Its X Investment in 10 Years
“I would be willing to bet my house that they'll make money on this investment in 10 years.”
Shaun Maguire: Judgment outweighs IQ and political quotient outweighs EQ
“His argument is that judgment is actually more important than IQ, and PQ is more important than EQ.”
Bek: Reference checks only work when asking outlier performers to judge talent
“You want to ask exceptional people if someone is exceptional, not good enough people, and that's often the problem with references.”
O'Shea: Sequoia has invested billions into SpaceX and Elon Musk companies
“I talked to Sean McGuire of Sequoia, who they've invested billions into SpaceX and Elon companies.”
Every mention by year
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20VC 47
TBPN 47
Sourcery 11
2026 33 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense
- OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
- Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- How the LA Fires Started (8 Top Theories)
- Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 47 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia
- 20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Shaun's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Partner, Sequoia Capital | 1 | 48 | 27% 3/11 | full record on 20VC → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Partner, Sequoia Capital | 3 | 35 | 75% 3/4 | full record on TBPN → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Partner, Sequoia Capital | 1 | 17 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Sourcery → |