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60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA) Dec 1, 2025 · 1 mention

The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team Nov 5, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 18:33 Ryan Smith And when we took money in 2011, Sequoia, I remember, was like, 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:10 Ryan Smith And then, you know, we decided to go raise money from Sequoia and Excel. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:42 Ryan Smith So when we got down to it, Excel and Sequoia, and we brought Insight in, they, they agreed to that.

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:30 Sam Parr Like, I want to appear as though I'm playing video games while I'm talking to Sequoia over a two hundred million dollar deal, and it was straight out of Robert Greene's Four Eight Laws of Power, uh, which is pretty funny.

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:31 Matt Mazzeo They were selling, like, if you got a Sequoia investment, like, that's, like, this is a real business.

Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000 May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:50 Jess Mah And actually I modified my thinking on this cause I was a scout for Sequoia Capital for many years.

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors Jan 16, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 13:18 Shaan Puri So he goes to Don Valentine, who's like the guy who created Sequoia. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:26 Shaan Puri If you can go get a Sequoia because program asked him, they go, he goes, you know, when you invest in Google, did you know, like, this is a huge company. 8 times in the scene

3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + more Dec 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:49 Shaan Puri They were on the cover of magazines, you know, Sequoia's investing in FTX, and everything looks incredible.

I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company Nov 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:34 Christina Cacioppo Do you remember, deep cut, 1012 years ago, Jess, who was the founder of Polyvore at the time now, and Sequoia, wrote a blog post about founder psychology.
  • ▶ 45:38 Shaan Puri You're great, but Sequoia's gone.

10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024 Sep 13, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:24 Sam Parr They've raised one hundred fifty million dollars from Sequoia and a bunch of other great companies.
  • ▶ 19:10 Shaan Puri I saw this great quote from a Sequoia partner.
  • ▶ 38:37 Shaan Puri He was a partner at Sequoia, very well respected in the cybersecurity world, and he started a VC firm called Cyberstarts, and they're the first investor in Wiz.

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:19 Shaan Puri Sequoia came out with a sort of blog post or I don't know, PDF or something like that about this, the, I think they called it the six hundred billion dollar hole or something.

How To Go Beast Mode As A Founder Jul 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:32 Shaan Puri He then meets with Sequoia, the number one VC in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene

From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview Apr 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:29 Joe Lonsdale We were in like, so Roloff, who's now like a star partner, Sequoia was a CFO, and we were kind of in his domain at first, and I sat next to this guy who was managing all the money on, on Bloomberg, like a treasury thing, so I got to learn…

The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire Feb 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:20 Shaan Puri And if you haven't read it, go read the Sequoia memo of his investment, uh, roll off, uh, both his investment in YouTube if you want to see how, like, uncertain and how, like, small and non-obvious this was at the beginning.

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) Mar 30, 2023 · 3 mentions

Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386) Nov 17, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:33 Shaan Puri Andreessen, Sequoia, Chamath, Tiger, Tribe, KOTU, Southbank, Paradigm, Alameda, FTX, they all made terrible financial decisions at huge size, and yet most will get richer.

Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More Nov 30, 2021 · 3 mentions

The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why. Nov 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:10 Nader Al-Naji and then I talked to a bunch of the big names that are now involved, so like Social Capital, Andreessen, Sequoia, all of them.

Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny Oct 20, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:19 Andrew Wilkinson What about if your friend tells you he just raised around from Sequoia capital, right? 2 times in the scene

12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220 Sep 17, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:02 Sam Parr They recently raised a little bit of funding at a five billion dollar valuation by, I believe, Sequoia.

What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215 Sep 1, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:47 Shaan Puri So Chamath was doing early stage tech investing series A, series B, he's competing with Sequoia and Benchmark and everybody else.
  • ▶ 1:07:58 Shaan Puri So Sequoia, Benchmark, Andreessen, they're always going to get the best deals or they're going to get allocation if they want in the best deal because of their brand name. 2 times in the scene

Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197 Jul 7, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:04 Dharmesh Shah So for instance, if you raise money, if you're a startup and you raise money from Andreessen or Sequoia,

How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187 May 28, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 20:41 Shaan Puri He goes, if you look at even the guys who invested in Snapchat or WhatsApp or whatever, they go and they start like, okay, Sequoia, the best venture fund that's ever existed. 5 times in the scene

Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180 May 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:12 Shaan Puri instead of, um, like if you go to Sequoia, Sequoia's got, you know, let's say the GPs, the general partners,

MFM #165: How Jack Butcher is Selling his Art for $76m & How to Research Wealthy People Mar 31, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:18 Shaan Puri I don't believe it's a scam given that they have backers and investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, Chamath, Coin, you know, Coinbase Capital, the Winklevoss, like basically like everybody who's legit in the technology slash… 2 times in the scene

Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020 Mar 13, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:17 Shaan Puri Um, let's start with, let's start with the Sequoia memo. 3 times in the scene
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