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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sequoia Capital comes up
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 29:16 Shane Parrish Don Valentine at Sequoia dismissed them, but did connect them with Mike Marcula, 30 years old and already retired from Intel.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 15:48 Shane Parrish But that would be the highest batting average of any VC firm, maybe with Sequoia being the exception. 2 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 0:00 Alfred Lin One of the things that we talk about at Sequoia is you can't just be better, you have to be different, too.
- ▶ 1:50 Shane Parrish We explore everything from his unique approach to company culture and hiring that helped make Zappos legendary, to how he evaluates opportunities at Sequoia, to the crucible moments that shaped his decision-making philosophy.
- ▶ 20:40 Alfred Lin And I joined that company soon after Sequoia invested in that company.
- ▶ 23:35 Alfred Lin And at Sequoia, we often talk about the fact that we own shares in a company.
- ▶ 28:12 Alfred Lin It started on a, on, on a college campus, and the reason, uh, we, we pass on the seed round at Sequoia is we're concerned that the, this is, like, just something that college students did with their parents' money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Alfred Lin And a lot of people have at Sequoia, we hire for slope, not intercept.
- ▶ 45:14 Alfred Lin And that was the first crucible moment, um, well, using the term, because Sequoia uses the term crucible moment, what we're going to do about that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:05 Alfred Lin And, it, we, you know, at Sequoia, we're just never complacent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:22 Alfred Lin Crucible moments, um, is, is the term we use at step, at Sequoia for things that are basically very important type one decisions, and I've had to deal, as an operator before Sequoia, we didn't call them 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:30 Shane Parrish What differentiated the founders in Sequoia from the ones who took advantage of that opportunity and sort of came out of it stronger, and the ones who didn't?
- ▶ 1:35:38 Alfred Lin At Sequoia, I mean, we take a lot of first meetings over Zoom, um, and during the pandemic when we were only doing, um, meetings over Zoom, you just never got the right texture for the company, the cadence of the, how the company operated,
- ▶ 1:41:06 Alfred Lin Yes, it's harder to imagine 10 years out, but, you know, in, in the business I'm in, at Sequoia, we are paid to make investments and to hold them long term, and we do have to sort of imagine 10 years out.
- ▶ 2:07:58 Alfred Lin And at Sequoia, we call that the pre-parade.