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Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 20:53 Jason Calacanis You know, I get approached by a lot of people, offshore, et cetera, hey, take your next seed fund, you're gonna do a fifty million dollar fund, let's put it on the chain, and then, hey, if you were one of my LPs, and you were like, oh, I…
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 0:02 Roelof Botha Sequoia is the most sought after name in the venture capital business. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Jason Calacanis Um, everybody wants to know, who's your favorite Sequoia Scout of all time?
- ▶ 1:28 Jason Calacanis It's called Sequoia Scouts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Jason Calacanis What's the best fund in the history of Sequoia?
- ▶ 3:19 Roelof Botha I think Venture 12, which has Airbnb, Dropbox, Natera, AdMob, and a couple of other companies.
- ▶ 3:29 Roelof Botha And then Venture 13, which is the fund right after that, has Stripe and Square, now called Block, MongoDB, and a bunch of other companies.
- ▶ 7:27 Chamath Palihapitiya How has Sequoia reacted when they've seen those movements? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Chamath Palihapitiya And so there's no path where Sequoia, for example, tries to go public or take the, you know, that's like, it's just not in the strategy of the business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 Roelof Botha So one of the things we talk about at Sequoia is, um, we cherish individualism and teamwork. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 David Friedberg Amazon, Nvidia was a Sequoia investment, I think. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 Roelof Botha So, so one of the things we realized, what you're alluding to, is in twenty-twenty-two we launched something called the Sequoia Capital Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:23 Jason Calacanis And to be clear, Rulof wrote in his first year or two at the company the deal memo to invest in YouTube, and it got bought for 1.6 billion dollars.
- ▶ 20:20 Jason Calacanis Don Valentine, um, the founder of the firm, drew a four quadrant chart at one point to explain the founders that, uh, perform extremely well in terms of returns. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Roelof Botha We play team sport at Sequoia, and, you know, we are equal partners, and, you know, it's... 4 times in the scene
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 2:45 Jason Calacanis They were founded at, uh, Sequoia's office in 1982 in San Mateo. 2 times in the scene
Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg
- ▶ 8:43 Jason Calacanis So ventures in a massive transition, but I think what comes out on the other side is something that looks a lot more like public private investing, like Ruloff pioneered at Sequoia.
AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
- ▶ 1:19:55 Jason Calacanis So ventures in a massive transition, but I think what comes out on the other side is something that looks a lot more like public, private investing, like rule off pioneered at Sequoia.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 6:57 Jason Calacanis Toma Bravo, co-founder Orlando, Sequoia's Roloff Botha, my guy, Cathie Wood, and science YouTuber, Cleo Abram.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 52:52 Jason Calacanis Alibaba's co-founder, Josiah, Tama Bravo co-founder, ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, Uber CEO, Dara, Sequoia's Rolof Botha, YouTuber, Cleo Abram, and many, many more coming.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 1:11:42 Chamath Palihapitiya I call my friends at Sequoia and all these other places.
- ▶ 1:26:42 Chamath Palihapitiya So do you, so do you think, like, Sequoia and Dries and Khosla Founders Fund, how do they respond?
The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
- ▶ 2:03 Gavin Baker Well, so first, he did, um, there was, uh, Alfred was from Squia.
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 55:52 Jason Calacanis Sequoia Insight Index, Cyberstarts all did that series A.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:51:24 Jason Calacanis You know, full disclosure, you know, you, when you saw me doing the Sequoia Scouts program said, hey, why don't you do a fund?
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 58:24 Jason Calacanis Is this something where we're making the government too big, and now we've got the government competing with BlackRock and Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, and they're gonna be on the board of technology companies and energy companies and…
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 4:34 Keith Rabois So like, for example, Roloff Bote, who runs Sequoia, had Mike Moritz on his board. 3 times in the scene
Thomas Laffont | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 30:57 Chamath Palihapitiya You're Sequoia, and you've done it a certain way,
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 1:02:11 Jason Calacanis Also Chamath, I remember, I don't know if it was Michael Moritz or, or Doug Leone, but I was talking to Sequoia about the time dispersion of your fund. 2 times in the scene
"Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- ▶ 44:54 Chamath Palihapitiya They hire somebody who doesn't rock the boat, and there are techniques here and very specific ways to attract talent to your startup that will become You know, do you guys remember part of the reason why YC and Founders Fund and Andreessen… 3 times in the scene
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 2:37 Jason Calacanis I was, uh, hanging out with Ruloff rule off at Sequoia.
- ▶ 20:38 Jason Calacanis Um, when I was doing Mahalo, which was a human powered search in over 10 years ago, that's Sequoia back.
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
- ▶ 1:16:35 Chamath Palihapitiya When you look at Sequoia's returns, they were incredible when they started.
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 59:56 Jason Calacanis Sequoia is doing a secondary sale of their Stripe investment, one of the greatest investments of the last decade, and Google is in talks to acquire Wiz, and this is absolutely amazing news for the industry, which has been suffering from a… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:40 Jason Calacanis It's an Israeli-American cybersecurity startup that was founded only in twenty-twenty, backed by Sequoia Index, Insight, Andreessen, and others.
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 24:10 Jason Calacanis And so I think inspired in part by that, David Kahn from Sequoia Capital, legendary venture firm here in Silicon Valley, published a blog titled AI six hundred billion dollar question.
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 3:14 David Sacks This caused Sean McGuire, who's a partner in Sequoia, to quote tweet him saying that I think that I'd rather raise my kids to grow up to take after Ivanka Trump than Hunter Biden.
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:14:02 Jason Calacanis I've gotten very lucky now because a lot of my founders from the first couple of cohorts of investing I did when I was a Sequoia Scout have come back and created second and third companies.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 0:07 Jason Calacanis We were both backed by Sequoia Capital, and in fact, we were both in the first class of Sequoia Scouts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:45 Jason Calacanis That tiny experimental fund that Sam and I were part of a scouts is Sequoia's highest multiple returning fund.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 30:02 David Friedberg He's a partner at Sequoia now.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 44:58 Jason Calacanis Um, and you know, shout out to the Sequoia team.
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 25:27 Chamath Palihapitiya To Sequoia.
E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
- ▶ 37:28 Jason Calacanis I just tweeted a, an episode with Gary Tan from 2009 that I recorded at Sequoia's office.
E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 22:53 Jason Calacanis Series A rounds are typically the rounds when a benchmark or Sequoia, a craft come in and, you know, join the board and put in a significant check. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:16 David Friedberg And, you know, if you read Sequoia's notes, when they kind of made the transition that they made, they said, we don't want to 2 times in the scene
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 58:32 Jason Calacanis And so I was, uh, I was just at Sequoia yesterday with, uh, or two days ago with the latest seven graduates from our accelerator. 3 times in the scene
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 53:47 Jason Calacanis But what's really- McCoya!
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 26:15 David Friedberg In the vein of both de-globalization, but also, you know, the scale at which venture firms have gotten to, Sequoia decided this week and announced publicly that they're splitting off their China and India slash Southeast Asia funds. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Jason Calacanis Well, they are, put that aside, um, Sequoia is 20% of the Nasdaq, this is the greatest venture firm of all time, hands down, and the Sequoia fund, which Chamath referred to. 2 times in the scene
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 23:11 Chamath Palihapitiya I don't know if you guys saw today, but Sequoia led a twenty million dollar round in this thing called Harvey.ai.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 1:13 Jason Calacanis It was backed by Sequoia.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 56:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I think the third thing is there's a person that went and filed a FOIA request at UC Berkeley to get Sequoia's returns. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Even when you have an incredible platform like Sequoia, five years of no returns on eight hundred billion dollars for somebody like UC Berkeley, what it really means without commenting on Sequoia's performance is that UC Berkeley is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 Chamath Palihapitiya Where in the absence of getting money back again, this is not a Sequoia thing. 2 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 1:13:49 Jason Calacanis Excel, Greyson, Sequoia.
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 7:44 Jason Calacanis Doug Leone from Sequoia, one of the greatest investors in history of Silicon Valley had this to say, and we will comment on the other side of this 52nd clip from Doug.
- ▶ 29:17 Jason Calacanis Sequoia got off the board of Citizen. 5 times in the scene
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:26:37 Jason Calacanis Sequoia and the YouTube founder sold it to Google because they were so scared of the Viacom lawsuit and how well it was working against them.
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:01:51 David Friedberg There's over eight billion dollars of capital invested in ByteDance by firms that we know well, like Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Co-Two, Susquehanna, and others.
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 1:17 Chamath Palihapitiya So I tweeted into the group chat, like last year we all talked about Sequoia and distributing public equities and how it's very fraught and difficult, and then today they write this big article about how people have just burned enormous
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 1:09:13 Chamath Palihapitiya So this is, this is a venture capitalist, and, you know, our, our returns have been consistently top quartiles, so instead of cherry picking anybody else, I'll just use us, but it could be Sequoia,
- ▶ 1:15:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, again, I'll just say us, Sequoia, Benchmark, we've consistently been top quartile.
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 43:46 Jason Calacanis Type in Sequoia Capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:45 David Sacks When's the last time they did what Sequoia did?
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 1:44:57 Chamath Palihapitiya And by the way, Sequoia, who has had exceptional returns has always been known to be hard nosed.
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 51:03 Chamath Palihapitiya That tweet that he had where he basically took the snapshot of the Sequoia transcript was one of the funniest things that I've ever seen. 2 times in the scene
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 28:26 David Sacks Remember that chart from Sequoia months ago on this podcast?
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 53:23 Chamath Palihapitiya So we put, we, you know, pulled all this data from pitch book and we just started to, I just took a smattering of firms here, Andreessen, Index, Greylock, Benchmark, Sequoia, GC, Founders Fund, Tiger, Excel, Kleiner, Kostler, and us.
- ▶ 1:23:06 Jason Calacanis Reed Hastings over at Netflix, Moritz over at Sequoia, Sam Altman over at OpenAI.
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 1:23:37 Jason Calacanis Venture capital firms like Sequoia, Excel, and others that have now, um, changed their status as, you know, just private companies, but also dabbling in public, are buying public equities, which basically means they see more opportunity 2 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 22:14 David Friedberg If you're a GP at one of the funds like Andreessen or Sequoia, and you had made this commitment to Elon or even Larry Ellison a couple months ago, do you fight against closing at 54 20?
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 15:29 Chamath Palihapitiya It's everybody from, you know, Sequoia, Tiger, UBS, BlackRock, uh, Chan Zuckerberg.
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 22:44 Chamath Palihapitiya Benchmark, Sequoia, you know, these guys don't try to create this team oriented glad handing approach, but they also don't allow the teams to get so diffused that there's 500 people running around ripping money in because you basically… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:57 Jason Calacanis Um, it puts, uh, Sequoia Insight and SoftBank, um, you know, large, large funds. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:30 Chamath Palihapitiya I want to know what you guys think about the Sequoia Evergreen Fund.
- ▶ 50:35 David Friedberg The Sequoia, like when they restructured?
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 52:33 Jason Calacanis And so has so LPs are no longer investing in funds there with the exception of Sequoias, which seems to be struggling, but is still able to raise the money.
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 50:04 David Sacks I mean, Sequoia has this great chart called survival of the quickest that we should put up on the screen.
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 13:25 Mar Hershenson 35 of them have raised more than a million dollars, and they're backed by people like Sequoia, Ambresen, Paradigm, Dragonfly, and of course, Pear.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 59:28 David Sacks I think Sequoia is saying two years.
- ▶ 1:06:27 David Sacks Um, on that note, you know, Sequoia had a really good chart, um, called survival of the quickest that illustrates this concept of giving yourself time. 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- ▶ 59:38 Chamath Palihapitiya Sequoia? 5 times in the scene
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 47:02 Chamath Palihapitiya What did, did you just see this latest Sequoia round?
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:28:51 Chamath Palihapitiya You'll be appreciated by your employees and you'll have shown some real metal, um, in a real crucible moment to use a Sequoia phrase.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 23:51 Chamath Palihapitiya It was Sequoia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:40 Chamath Palihapitiya And by the way, you know where I learned that from, from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 48:20 David Sacks So I don't know that if this report, I don't know if this reporting is actually true, but if the goal is all of a sudden for Tiger to become a Series A investor that competes with Kraft or Sequoia or these other firms that are very…
- ▶ 48:54 Chamath Palihapitiya And so of all of these entrepreneurs that exist, the idea of getting passive money where you won't get fired, where there is that remember, like, remember when we were growing up in Silicon Valley, the risk is always like, if you take… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:48 David Sacks You know, experiences they felt were very negative with Sequoia. 7 times in the scene
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 1:07:08 Jason Calacanis And Marc Andreessen, Sequoia, a bunch of different venture firms responded. 3 times in the scene
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 6:18 Chamath Palihapitiya I'm saying, you know, you didn't come to Social Capital or to Kraft Ventures or to Sequoia or to TPB or to Google to raise money for this thing.
- ▶ 14:54 Jason Calacanis Now, Sachs, I was on this podcast, The Dropout, which I think is an ABC News one, and I said, why didn't the prosecution bring up, you know, GV, let's assume Sequoia, Andreessen, and, you know, the 20 top firms in the valley.
- ▶ 19:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Okay, you don't think these dopes run around thinking, oh, Sequoia, Benchmark, Social Capital, Kraft Invest, I'm just plowing the money in.
- ▶ 58:15 David Friedberg So, you know, let's not create a Sequoia graveyard.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 54:11 Jason Calacanis I picked the Sequoia fund, the new evergreen Sequoia and the Sequoia fund, the new evergreen fund. 4 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 20:50 Jason Calacanis We heard last week, Sequoia is going to do the Sequoia fund, this evergreen fund, keep owning shares.
- ▶ 24:28 David Friedberg They've, um, Sequoia, I don't know, people realize this, they set up the Heritage Fund, and they set it up with only GP's money.
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 23:39 Chamath Palihapitiya So like, you know, you know, it's us, Andreessen, Sequoia, and it's like, you know, we put in 200 grand each or 400 grand each.
- ▶ 24:03 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, could you imagine a SaaS founder that basically all of a sudden says, Alright, you know what, I'm raising a six million dollar series A, you know, craft can take 500 K Sequoia, you can have 500 K.
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