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Economic Growth, Governance, and Capital Allocation – Dambisa Moyo (EP.510)
- ▶ 38:56 Baroness Dambisa Moyo We also were lucky early on to sign up Scott Malpass, who was running the Notre Dame endowment, and he was leaving, and somebody at Sequoia said, oh, call Scott Malpass, he can really help you. 2 times in the scene
Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479)
- ▶ 46:44 Ted Seides There's a long history, I mean, say back to even the founding of Sequoia, of some knowledge of private markets in the capital ecosystem, and then as it's exploded, I really participated in that. 2 times in the scene
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 17:05 Dave Thornton Are Sequoia and Andreessen, but we need to know that they have historically produced good cash on cash returns.
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 8:32 Tim Sullivan Sequoia, Kleiner, Perkins, Mayfield, people like that.
- ▶ 25:52 Tim Sullivan It was very easy to put that list together for the venture program, because there were just so many prominent companies that had come out of it, starting with Apple, with Sequoia, way back when.
- ▶ 34:28 Tim Sullivan Sequoias of the world, so I'll invest in emerging managers, because I think you may find that it's very hard to find the winners, and you may not find the winners often enough to pay for the losers or the mediocre.
- ▶ 55:19 Tim Sullivan When I started, if you were a smart guy in Silicon Valley, you crawled on your hands and knees up Sand Hill Road to Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins and begged them to invest. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 12:23 Mitchell Green And I didn't frankly think there was much difference between Bessemer and Sequoia and Kleiner at the time, and General Atlantic and TCV, other than some people wrote bigger checks and smaller checks.
- ▶ 34:29 unnamed speaker And then you might have minority investor, but benchmark or Sequoia is in there or batteries in there.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 32:27 Magnus Grimeland Sequoia is a good example. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:27 Magnus Grimeland A lot of founders won't know anyone in Sequoia, but they just know that Sequoia has a name they want on their cap table.
Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
- ▶ 21:25 Brad Jacobs So I had my friends at Sequoia Heritage.
- ▶ 1:12:15 Brad Jacobs Our initial investment is a billion dollars, not a few billion dollars like the book, but a billion dollars, and nine hundred million dollars of that is coming from me, and a hundred million dollars of that is coming from Sequoia Heritage,…
George Michelakis – Chess Master's Approach to Long-Short Equity at Gladstone (EP.362)
- ▶ 5:04 Ted Seides We discussed George's path from chess to investing, alongside his college friend, Rolof Berta of Sequoia, the challenges of the fundamental long-short equity model, the culture required to make it work, and how he does it at Gladstone.
- ▶ 8:19 George Mikulakis That person is Rilof Beuter, who runs Sequoia globally.
- ▶ 48:50 George Mikulakis Rulof Beuter at Sequoia.
Ana Marshall – The Climb to Investment Excellence (EP.360)
- ▶ 5:04 Ted Seides Doug Leone from Sequoia, Lei Zhang from Hill House, and Mark Andreessen from A-sixteen Z.
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 9:01 Allison Thacker Actually, the Sequoia Forever Fund is up on there too.
Kimberly Sargent – Passion and Mission at the Packard Foundation (EP.333)
- ▶ 54:30 Kimberly Sargent I'm thinking of two from a pure numbers perspective, not figuring out a way to get invested with Sequoia when we started up our team in 2008, I think was probably pretty costly.
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.
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 42:46 Ted Seides So they're not the tourists, but what Andreessen's done over the last decade, Sequoia with the one fund, some of these players that have really, as you mentioned earlier, Chris, the reason why you had to be bigger than first round was to…
Marshall Boyd – Meat and Potatoes Multi-Family Real Estate at IEC (Capital Allocators, EP.295)
- ▶ 14:15 Marshall Boyd We started getting in front of people and we'd have little lights in the tunnel along the way when I'd be sitting and talking to a partner at Sequoia who was looking from a high net worth standpoint and investing with us.
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 25:47 Charles Van Vleet We have some growth in buyout mid-cap, and we just never went deep into venture, you know, seed or A round, partially because we just, you know, we're not interesting money to Sequoia and to Sand Hill Row, because Sand Hill Row says,…
Melanie Pickett – Modern Technology in the Investment Office at Northern Trust (Capital Allocators, EP.281)
- ▶ 32:25 Melanie Pickett And they get a capital call from Sequoia growth, 12. 2 times in the scene
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 56:46 Avichal Garg I always remind our team that Sequoia was founded in. 2 times in the scene
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 33:58 Ashvin Chhabra And so I started off the simple way, which is I went after Sequoia and took some effort, and luckily we got in and we built a nice position. 3 times in the scene
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides From Sequoia, A-sixteen-Z, Union Square Ventures, and Founders Fund.
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 20:03 Billy Libby And so if you're Sequoia or Forerunner or Bessemer, you have services and tools.
- ▶ 31:36 Billy Libby We don't want to lead, get Sequoia, but if you're not going to get one of the top VCs, you don't need five VCs that are all doing the same thing.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 48:28 Sahil Bloom You were having this disruption where a barbell had formed, where on one end of that barbell, you have the Sequoia, Benchmark, Andreessen, Tiger Global, these like big name cache firms who, when they write a check into you, you're kind of…
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 30:40 Tom Lenehan Yeah, we are going to London next week, and I think we're the only investors going to London that are not going to the Sequoia annual meeting. 2 times in the scene
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 4:37 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Sebastian Mallaby Sequoia, the top venture capital partnership in the world probably, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 Sebastian Mallaby That is done by several partnerships, but again, I'll take Sequoia as an example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:41 Sebastian Mallaby I mean, Benchmark and Sequoia have been at or near the top, but many have moved. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:44 Sebastian Mallaby Michael Moritz of Sequoia likes to say, when people ask him, what's your favorite investment? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Sebastian Mallaby Sequoia is so good at alpha that I'm going to go for beta. 2 times in the scene
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 44:53 Kathy Xu So the question is, how do we compete with Sequoia? 4 times in the scene
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 32:32 Arjun Sethi When you look at a benchmark or a Sequoia, you want to aspire to be like them because they've done it.
- ▶ 55:05 Arjun Sethi We weren't able to, but we ended up partnering with Sequoia GC and ourselves and the rounds and
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate in.
Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 21:32 Joelle Kayden There are the brand name funds, obviously, firms like Sequoia, Andreessen, Excel.
- ▶ 25:07 Ted Seides Everyone thinks about venture being a serially correlated business where the benchmarks or the Excels or the Sequoias have access that others don't.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 11:47 Ali Hamed I spent a lot of time idolizing Benchmark and First Round and Sequoia and a lot of these amazing firms.
- ▶ 48:28 Ali Hamed If you're Sequoia, the fact that you did the deal is the reason it's no longer contrarian.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 6:12 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Florian Bartunek – Equities in Brazil at Constellation Asset Management (Manager Meetings, EP.27)
- ▶ 13:27 Florian Bartunek Sequoia, SoftBank are investors.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230)
- ▶ 4:46 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 10:44 Chris Douvos Some people call it mango seed or whatever, and the taxonomy is so fractured as to be almost useless, but what we are seeing is that companies are getting a lot more financing in a lot earlier stage in their lives, and we've seen Greylock…
- ▶ 15:22 Ted Seides Across that 4000 players, you mentioned that a couple of the big brands, you know, Sequoia, Andreessen, Greylock have these seed stage funds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:49 Chris Douvos Like the Sequoia guys love large market.
- ▶ 39:41 Chris Douvos You know, you go back to, like, Good Times RIP, the famous Sequoia presentation at the time of the global financial crisis.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can take to participate.
- ▶ 12:24 Ted Seides I've heard it over the years, and I especially picked up a couple of the episodes where you did long histories of some top venture firms, Sequoia, A-sixteen Z. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 David Rosenthal Sequoia, you know, it's not quite a spin out, but Don went to Capital Group, and with them, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:41 Ben Gilbert But I do think it's interesting that you had these firms that would sort of observe that Sequoia wrote a check six months later, come in and start offering to write another check. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 David Rosenthal Both the existing firms, you know, you see, like, take Sequoia, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Ben Gilbert The other thing, Ted, is even before we started to see these dedicated growth funds by the canonical early stage firms, you know, Sequoia raising their global growth fund, and you started to see people raising larger and larger funds and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 David Rosenthal Excel saw what Sequoia was doing by bear hugging their companies and saying, we're going to be a life cycle investor seed IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:10 David Rosenthal You know, that's like a lead in around that's a Sequoia.
- ▶ 48:25 David Rosenthal You know, Sequoia actually has this great saying about this
Jamie Montgomery – March Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.26)
- ▶ 7:18 Eric Yuppin You could argue to grown up in a great firm, whether it's Sequoia, one of the world's greatest or the Greylock XL that this, that the training and the exposure to that level of intellect, that level of ferocity, that level of
- ▶ 8:45 Ted Seides So I'm curious in the big seats where you sat, a lot of times you expect these venture portfolios to be filled with the sequoias and the axiles because you do have access and there's long, long histories of relationships there.
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- ▶ 33:05 Henri-Pierre Jacques I think we definitely take more of a community fund approach, similar to first round or hippo versus a partner approach like the Sequoias of the world.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 20:24 Paula Volent I know when I got to Sequoia, they're like, please don't call us again. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:32 Ted Seides So as you try to flesh out a venture portfolio around the sequoias of the world, there are so many of these managers.
- ▶ 28:26 Paula Volent Like with Sequoia, when they had the Beijing meeting, I did a lot of meetings and
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 1:00:22 Barry Sternlicht And I, the biggest mistakes like you often find when you find Andreas and Horowitz and Sequoia are, they're all in this deal. 2 times in the scene
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 12:23 Roz Hewsenian Sometimes that's not possible with a firm like Sequoia, but we want to be at least five percent of the fund.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 46:58 Jeff Hausenbold And then Sequoia has gone on to raise the growth fund and stuff.
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 10:01 Chamath Palihapitiya It was Sequoia back in the day.
- ▶ 15:48 Chamath Palihapitiya I think Sequoia maybe was the only other fund, but I was a first-time fund manager trying to ask for 30%.
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 21:37 Sandra Robertson And it was with the vice chancellor, and then one of the colleges, and it's very public, and Mike Moritz of Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 20:29 Scott Kupor If you were around here in the valley at the end of oh eight, Sequoia, who's a very well-regarded and has been a very successful firm, 3 times in the scene
Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
- ▶ 52:33 Stephen McKeon I mean, maybe other than the shareholder meeting, like go visit the Microsoft campus, or if I invest in Sequoia's current fund, that does not typically, I mean, may, there may be a sort of an informal arrangement.
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 12:10 Josh Wolfe And then I'm inspired by the, you know, the early John Doerr and Pierre Lamond, Kleiner and Sequoia partnership type who were literally investing in people that were inventing the future.
- ▶ 15:47 Josh Wolfe What's going to be your really durable advantage competitively when you're looking at these amazing people at Sequoia and Benchmark and Axel and Kleiner? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:35 Josh Wolfe Prompted a lot of firms, Sequoia, NEA, and others to raise multi-billion dollar funds.
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 1:10:51 Roz Hewsenian For example, we built up our Sequoia allocation slowly over time.
Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- ▶ 22:04 Ashby Monk Sequoia, whatever, is doing the deal.
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 19:19 Scott Malpass Now we're, you know, one of the largest investors with Sequoia in the country, and it's been a fabulous friendship and partnership.
- ▶ 37:15 Ted Seides And it does feel like there's this self-fulfilling prophecy that when you're Sequoia and you have great returns, you seem to get the better deals, which allows you to get
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 29:23 Chatri Sityodtong Capital, institutional capital, from Sequoia Capital, Tomasic Holdings division called Heliconia, which is, uh, Tomasic Holdings is the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.
- ▶ 1:07:17 Chatri Sityodtong My mom just sent me an email three days ago because, uh, we announced that, you know, Sequoia Capital invested, right?
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 34:02 Chris Douvos Well, so you're talking about, you know, kind of Sequoia, Benchmark, Greylock, you know, Kleiner Perkins, but, you know, here in, and I don't, you know, I don't mean to, you know, kind of trash talk anybody, but, but ultimately, when… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 unnamed speaker Um, but like, at the same time, like, uh, one example that was really instructive to me, was we got, when I was at Princeton, Sequoia raised a fund in 2003, and they sent, 2 times in the scene