Sequoia Capital

also referred to as: sequoia

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2024 by Pablo Srugo · said 49 times in 30 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (19), Zach Abrams (3), Neil Patel (2), Jeff Adamson (2), Jason Van Gaal (2), Jack Kuveke (2), Isaiah Granet (2), Zach Lloyd (1)

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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO o... · PMF Show Apr 20, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 0:15
Fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—grew 12x, raised $30M Series A | Notch Aug 3, 2026 · 1 mention · from 41:00
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention · from 25:25
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2025 30 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode

He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia... · PMF Show Dec 11, 2025 · 5 mentions · from 1:52
He invested in 684 AI startups—& realized that quitters always win. | Jack Kuveke, Founder turned... · PMF Show Apr 1, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 8:35
He sold his startup to Stripe for $1.1B—in just 2.5 years. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge · PMF Show Jan 13, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 41:12
Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder o... · PMF Show Aug 7, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 24:00
He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show Jul 28, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 10:47
He sold SkipTheDishes for $200M—then grew Neo Financial to a $1B valuation. | Jeff Adamson, Co-Fo... · PMF Show Mar 24, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 34:22
He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jas... · PMF Show Feb 3, 2025 · 2 mentions · from 23:50
Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta · PMF Show Nov 27, 2025 · 1 mention · from 8:54
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2024 15 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode

He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show Oct 11, 2024 · 7 mentions · from 0:00
YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a... · PMF Show Dec 19, 2024 · 1 mention · from 1:01:15
He sold his 1st startup for 8 figures, grew his 2nd to $3M in a year—while battling panic attacks... · PMF Show Nov 18, 2024 · 1 mention · from 34:10
His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to pr... · PMF Show Nov 12, 2024 · 1 mention · from 33:07
How to Get Free PR for Your Startup—Tips from the Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s TechCrunch. | Dougl... · PMF Show Sep 12, 2024 · 1 mention · from 22:53
1st-time founder meets 120 VCs— closes $2.7M in 5 weeks, 10x oversubscribed. Here's the step-by-s... · PMF Show Jun 24, 2024 · 1 mention · from 13:05
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show Jun 10, 2024 · 1 mention · from 3:46
5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention · from 18:36
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Apr 22, 2024 negative

Assertion Supported

Srugo: Sequoia and Chris Sacca passed on Snapchat's initial fundraising

“And so Evan starts to think about fundraising and he talks to Sequoia. He goes after Chris Saka. He meets many different VCs, all of them pass. Some of them won't even like meet with him.”

Pablo Srugo Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 18:36 5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show

Apr 17, 2025 positive

Assertion Supported

Rangan: Sequoia Was Famous and Successful at Replacing Founders with CEOs

“Sequoia was very famous for doing that many times, and was successful as well.”

Gopi Rangan Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 15:57 He invested in 30 early-stage startups. Here's what he looks for in the founders he backs. | Gopi... · PMF Show

Aug 21, 2025 bearish

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Walker: Non-tier-one VCs face an extremely brutal fundraising market

“However nervous and anxiety ridden you are about this market, just know that your VCs are equally anxiety ridden unless they work at Andreessen or Sequoia because their fundraising process is super hard right now.”

Peter Walker Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 56:18 Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Hea... · PMF Show

Oct 9, 2025

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Zach Lloyd: Warp raised a $50 million Series B while pre-revenue

“So we raised, like, 15 to 17 at the A, and then the B was big. It was like a fifty million dollar Series B. Free revenue.”

Zach Lloyd Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 39:37 He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show

Dec 11, 2025 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Juicebox burned under $750k of seed capital before raising Series A

“Almost nothing. I think like. 750 K, 500 K or so. So we did not burn much during the time.”

David Paffenholz Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 49:11 He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia... · PMF Show

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