Sand Hill Road
also referred to as: sandhill road
7 statements across 7 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 24, 2019 by Jeremy Stoppelman · said 41 times in 26 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (11), Max Levchin (4), Lily Kanter (3), Tobias Lütke (2), Sandra Oh Lin (2), Leah Solivan (2), Julia Hartz (2), Tristan Walker (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
2021 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2020 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Sand Hill Road, oldest first
Jun 24, 2019
VCs in 2004 demanded Yelp replace its young founders with seasoned executives
“So in our case, we're young, we're technical, and so we look kind of like what happened in the late nineties, and so everyone still had PTSD from the dot-com bust, And so one of the common refrains to me was, you know, and this is straight to my face, was like…”
Feb 17, 2020
Mar 7, 2022 neutral
Jun 13, 2022 negative
Every Sand Hill Road VC rejected Confinity's early pitches
“We ran out of venture capital, kind of the Sandhill Road, classic blue chip venture capitalist community very quickly. I think we were roundly rejected by 100% of those pitches. We drove up and down Sandhill Road and Got absolutely nothing.”
May 6, 2024 negative
Williams: Late 1990s Silicon Valley fundraising was strictly a connections game
“And it was frustrating because everything you read is like, oh, it's so easy to raise money just rolling down the Sand Hill Road, and I didn't know anyone. Like, especially at the time, it's very, very much a connection game”
May 26, 2025
Aug 3, 2026 negative
A 2X participating preferred term blocked Serena & Lily from raising capital
“One of our other major investor on Sandhill Road came up with the capital. They actually put the money into the company on top of our cap stack, on top of the capital chart, At a very heavy duty preference of a two X preferred participating, very gnarly securi…”