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What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 36:09 Jason Lemkin You'll hear the Sequoia is famous for this. 3 times in the scene
The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:05 Jason Lemkin And Harvey today, Cisco, Sequoia putting three hundred million into Harvey for legal, Harvey A, that's three hundred million.
- ▶ 17:23 Jason Lemkin And then boom, Sequoia, three hundred million in Harvey AI today.
HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on How to Hire Great VPs and How M&A Really Works
- ▶ 3:47 Brian Halligan It's Sequoia.
- ▶ 23:05 Brian Halligan I will say something about the founders I need, mostly Tris Koya, but also Tris Koya.
- ▶ 32:28 Jason Lemkin And like their ideas may be tempered by where they live, who they've met with, who Sequoia knows, who Dharmesh is seed invested in.
HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and When Incumbents Win
- ▶ 0:06 Brian Halligan If you look at the SaaS company's numbers, see it through Sequoia, see it through all my HubSpot dashboards where I see our customers.
- ▶ 1:06 Jason Lemkin Chairman of HubSpot, Sequoia Growth, and Propeller.
- ▶ 23:30 Jason Lemkin You're at Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:20 Jason Lemkin And look, this is a, this is, this may be a question where there's no good answer, but especially as you're looking at stuff in Sequoia, if someone isn't seeing any rebound at all now, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:12 Jason Lemkin It's obvious there's a thousand startups, there's a thousand flowers, but what's your nuanced learning from HubSpot plus Sequoia on who wins in B to B? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 Jason Lemkin And one other question on that, and from both Sequoia and HubSpot related to this is something I think a lot about, but I don't see discussed much, but it's really clear in the field is what is AI parody?
How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 4:39 Jason Lemkin It gets fired or you get fired at the big, people don't talk about this at the, it's not always this literal, but at Bessemer, Lightspeed, Andreessen, Sequoia, they don't win every deal. 3 times in the scene
Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth
- ▶ 2:03 Sam Blond I think it's probably been a couple of years now through Mike Vernal, who is a partner at Sequoia.
- ▶ 6:06 Sam Blond And I think for those listening who aren't familiar with the Clay story is like fast forwarding from those early beginnings, I think Kareem and Clay announced raising, 50 plus million dollars at a five hundred million dollar valuation from…
Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- ▶ 2:04 Robert Lacher So five years ago, it was Excel index, Atomico, Boulder, and a few competing, and now you have Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:04 Robert Lacher Luciana in the board from Sequoia or it can be anyone from Excel or index or any of the other great funds.
Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 25:29 Jason Lemkin Like why are Sequoia and these guys are pretty smart at Andreessen's.
"The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With Dave Kellogg, ex-CEO Host Analytics": SaaStr Classic
- ▶ 0:59 Dave Kellogg Always remember the famous quote from Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia, all companies go out of business for the same reason.
Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
- ▶ 7:38 Spencer Kimball That's a really good signal to these kinds of, um, early, uh, assets to the company that are crucial to success.
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
- ▶ 12:04 Colin Jones And, and share ideas with, and, um, I probably owe some of them some money for counseling sessions at different points, but, uh, ultimately Shardul Shah at INDEX, uh, Doug Leone at Sequoia connected me to our CEO.
VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- ▶ 0:50 Jason Lemkin We've got, uh, Sequoia, we've got Bessemer, we've got, uh, so many of the top funds presenting, but thought for folks that wanted to ask extra questions about,
- ▶ 29:31 Jason Lemkin Well, you know, to simplify all of it, thinking through it, um, when you meet, there's all, there are all different types of investors, and the investors you're gonna hear after this, you're gonna hear from Sequoia, and Bessemer, and GGVC,…
- ▶ 38:31 Jason Lemkin It was an intentional choice, and Sequoia was almost honest about the FTX thing, which is like, yeah, we should have done more, we got caught, but 2 times in the scene
The Playbook to Blending Product-Led Growth with Sales-Led Growth: Amplitude VP of APJ Mark Velthuis
- ▶ 6:37 Mark Velthuis Last May, I think it was Sequoia Capital, ah, who hosted some great drinks last night, and I saw a few of you out there. 2 times in the scene
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 8:40 Jason Lemkin We had so many of the best VCs here from Sequoia to Bessemer to Lightspeed, uh, to Capital B to on and on, and, um, there's just so many that are either in Singapore or frequently coming that that makes it easier, um, than trying to cajole… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 Jason Lemkin Sequoia offered me a hundred million, but I decided to bootstrap.
- ▶ 41:33 Jason Lemkin Every, Sequoia does it, Bessemer, everyone here does intimate events.
What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:49 Jason Lemkin I wrote this at sort of the peak of the media in twenty-twenty-one when I was talking with someone to Sequoia, and they said they called it the Postmates effect. 2 times in the scene
Investing and Venture Capital in 2023 | SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin + Atrium Founder/CRO Pete Kazanjy
- ▶ 11:52 Jason Lemkin So it certainly does help to be, you know, look, having Sequoia or Excel on your cap table helps, and, and, uh, whether it should or shouldn't, having Saster certainly helps with recruiting executives.
The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 11:04 Brian Halligan And we didn't find that out actually until we did our round with Sequoia.
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 46:54 Jason Lemkin There's no, you're not jockeying with Sequoia and Andreessen for space.
VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee
- ▶ 34:38 Jason Lemkin Like if you're Excel or Sequoia or Bessemer, you can't sell in the series. 4 times in the scene
The Secrets to Working with VC Associates, Scouts, Syndicates....& the True Gate Keepers to Venture
- ▶ 17:49 Zach Coelius Let's say the person is a scout for Sequoia and they invest in your company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Zach Coelius Sequoia is leading this round. 2 times in the scene
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:27 Jason Lemkin A few can, Andreessen, and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally they can only invest in startups, whether they're late stage or early stage. 2 times in the scene
Top 10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Çilingir | SaaStr
- ▶ 18:12 Hande Cilingir Insider is a Sequoia-backed company, and when we are doing, when we are, and we have also completed our series D round very recently.
From 0 to 400M, 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO | SaaStr
- ▶ 2:36 Jason Lemkin And Henry pointed out the company did not raise 11, a hundred million dollar rounds from Sequoia and Andreessen and had its own sort of path through private equity and other things.
Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
- ▶ 7:30 Jason Lemkin Um, and I think if, if, if, if you worked at Sequoia Capital, I would agree with you.
Scaling a Successful SaaS Sales Team w/ 20VC Founder Harry Stebbings and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 34:45 Jason Lemkin We see these Greylocks and Andreessen's and others and Sequoia sort of adapting, but, ah, I, I don't know.
- ▶ 35:57 Jason Lemkin Oh my God, Excel, Sequoia, whoever did the seed, but they didn't do the A. 2 times in the scene
The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- ▶ 6:24 Mark Roberge Imagine if five rockstar engineers from right around the corner, maybe they're at Google or something, quit their jobs, raised ten million dollars from Sequoia, which is happening all the time right now, and they reverse engineer your…
The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 15:04 Jason Lemkin It's not huge, but if you're, it's not just YC, but if you're in a top program, there's an assumption that Bessemer has an army of analysts that all the big funds that, that Andreessen Sequoia, they picked everything over.
- ▶ 48:35 Jason Lemkin If I'm, if I'm the next HashiCorp or I'm Zoom when Sequoia invested in others, can I still go guns a blazing into venture even now?
Webinar: What It Was Like in '08-'09. And We Can Learn for '20.
- ▶ 23:18 Nick Mehta You know, we'll pick Sequoia just because they write the famous memo, right? 2 times in the scene
The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With - Lessons From Dave Kellogg
- ▶ 6:12 Dave Kellogg Always remember the famous quote from Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia, all companies go out of business for the same reason.
The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- ▶ 4:16 Ryan Smith Tried to be, I didn't even want to be the CEO of Qualtrics, but my brother, we're sitting in Sequoia's office. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Ryan Smith And I think, I think Excel and Sequoia totally shorted our TAM.
Fireside Chat with CEO and Founder of Front, Mathilde Collin
- ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings Uh, you recently raised an incredible round from Sequoia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 Mathilde Collin So Brian from Sequoia, who joined our board,