Sequoia Capital requested Jaspreet Singh move to the Bay Area in 2012
Jaspreet Singh · How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva · Nov 7, 2022 · at 3:20
Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva, explains how investor Sequoia Capital prompted his 2012 relocation to Silicon Valley.
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“We got funded by Sequoia and Sequoia actually requested that while we sort of really narrow down our product market fit and refine it, like they requested if I could relocate to Bay Area and this whole new thing called cloud is happening. I should give it a thought. So then I moved to the Bay Area in 212.”
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