Sequoia Capital

“Tristan said, we're gonna raise some money. He had a term sheet from a firm that he liked. It was a good venture fund. But he also liked me, and he wanted to give me a shot, and I was, like, super excited to get that message, like, this is my chance, and unfor…”

“So I know now many VCs in the US use this as part of the training program for the analysts. I know about it that somebody in Sequoia mentioned this to me that they have this part of the thing”

“The thing that's kind of new now are there are five tool CEOs like Brett Taylor's one. You can code, you have tastes, you have vision, you can sell the product, you can convince employees like this kind of super CEO.”

“I call it my lock algorithm. L is for lovable. And, you know, Steve Jobs, you would say is kind of rough and maybe not lovable, but he would inspire followership. You would want to follow him. And so could I envision a twenty-eight-year-old me graduating from …”

“Every one of the CEOs I work with has the same problem, and that's a scaling limit. That was the limit for me. I wasn't trusting enough.”

“So what I do, like the kids table is 15 CEOs of companies under a hundred employees and the adults table are CEOs of companies over a hundred employees, about 15 of them. They talk about this with each other.”

“There are technology driven investors. Like I would say Marc Andreessen's probably like something like that. Vinod's a mix. He's both founder driven and a technology driven investor. There are investors who are sort of product slash market driven investors. My…”