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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