Don Valentine, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 11Sebastian Mallaby 4Scott Malpass 3Mike Gitlin 1Michael Carmen 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Don Valentine comes up
Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479)
- ▶ 46:59 Mike Gitlin Well, Don Valentine had worked at Capital Group before founding Sequoia, and it was determined at the time that it was best housed outside of the four walls of Capital Group to keep the focus on active public management.
Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- ▶ 34:19 Michael Carmen Don Valentine, you know, the legendary investor from Sequoia used to say in his meetings that our clients gave us money so that we would say yes, not say no to every company, and so we were trying to balance that also.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 13:30 Sebastian Mallaby These were Sequoia Capital, founded by Don Valentine, and then Kleiner Perkins, which was founded by Eugene Kleiner, who was one of the traitorous eight whom Rock had backed in 1957, and then secondly, Tom Perkins, who was a sort of a… 4 times in the scene
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 12:48 David Rosenthal I mean, one of the things, as we get to talk about the history of venture capital in a minute here, Don Valentine, who started Sequoia in the seventies, his big innovation in venture was this realization that, Hey, what mattered in early… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:19 David Rosenthal I mean, like, you know, I mentioned Don Valentine. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:28 David Rosenthal Mike Moritz adapted from Don Valentine, which is that as long as Moore's law holds, every successive generation of companies, and generations in tech are measured in a couple years, fund cycles, let's put it that way.
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 19:08 Scott Malpass And he said, well, my gosh, we, we helped fund Don Valentine, and, and you got to meet Don. 3 times in the scene