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The $2.5B Drone Company Trying to Become the Toyota of Defense Aug 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:43 Soren Monroe-Anderson The round was led by Sequoia and ASTF with a bunch of great partners, including Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Teal Capital, Spark Capital, Mantis, and Dillon Field.

SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 15, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Jordan Black A lot of our existing investors coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, APC, Andreessen Horowitz.
  • ▶ 1:17 Jordan Black Uh, we had Lower Carbon, Interlagos leading the round with a lot of our existing investors, uh, coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst,
  • ▶ 31:46 Molly O'Shea With a hundred million dollars in total capital raised to date, you have collected some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, from Sean McGuire of Sequoia, to Paul Kwan of General Catalyst, to Dellian at Founders Fund, and now Lower…

Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:18:40 Mark Pincus None of us were like part of a Sequoia Koretsu or Kleiner Perkins, or none of us were like at the Allen conference, or it was just like,

How He Turned a Blood Test Startup Into $7B OS for Healthcare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 19, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Molly O'Shea We've raised seventy million on a seven billion valuation led by General Catalyst with support from Sequoia and Morgan Stanley.
  • ▶ 1:32 Molly O'Shea On a seven billion valuation led by General Catalyst with support from Sequoia and Morgan Stanley.
  • ▶ 36:50 Tanay Tandon And Alfred forwarded to some of the other Sequoia founders and then tweeted about it.
  • ▶ 50:00 Molly O'Shea What is it like working with him and Sequoia? 2 times in the scene

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:32:55 Kyle Harrison So again, in 2022, there's a great story of I think it was Sequoia and Brookfield started a secondaries fund in like the heat of 2022 collapse.

The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 30, 2026 · 4 mentions

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:09 Molly O'Shea I talked to Sean McGuire of Sequoia, who they've invested billions into SpaceX and Elon companies.

Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 11, 2026 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 Gilly Raanan Uh, in 2018, after spending about a decade with, uh, Sequoia Capital, um, and beforehand, and by the way, at Sequoia I did some cyber security investments, but I made other investments in, in, in non-cyber security companies, which, uh,… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:50 Gilly Raanan Uh, in my own ventures, and then at Sequoia for, you know, two decades.
  • ▶ 32:52 Gilly Raanan We, we've been working together at Sequoia, and since then at, at Cyberstarts.
  • ▶ 1:15:07 Gilly Raanan The company, uh, I, I was the seed investor, uh, for that, uh, company, uh, together with, uh, Doug Leone from Sequoia and Sherdul Shah from, from Index Ventures. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:27:54 Gilly Raanan I've seen real greatness at Sequoia. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:32:35 Gilly Raanan Putting a lot of, um, focus, um, on developing, uh, and, and supporting my, my partners, um, and, and really helping them go through that journey, which I went through, and I know how hard it is to, you know, you can be, at the time I… 2 times in the scene

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: $10T Companies Are Coming · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 9, 2026 · 23 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Molly O'Shea Whenever I prepare for a Sequoia interview, I... 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:56 Alfred Lin We, we obviously file it with the SEC at the end of the year, but we're just focused on the seed fund that we're investing in, the venture fund, the growth fund, the expansion fund, and our public pool in, in SCF, and that's what, what…
  • ▶ 3:53 Alfred Lin And if you think about it, I joined Sequoia 15 years ago. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:07 Alfred Lin We get to do much more of the strategic work, the more creative work, the more human work, and, um, that's why we're very, very optimistic at Sequoia, and I think the world should be very, very optimistic about AI.
  • ▶ 16:47 Alfred Lin Um, when I joined Sequoia, the term unicorn was not even created.
  • ▶ 23:05 Molly O'Shea So Sequoia has invested in a plethora of AI companies. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:08 Alfred Lin Are you speaking for myself or my partners or Sequoia? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:21 Alfred Lin And, um, Sequoia is run as a partnership and, uh, there's two people's names that are now called co-stewards because we signed all the sec documents. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:38 Alfred Lin Okay, I think one of the principles I have for my life, and hopefully for Sequoia, and hopefully for my family, and especially my son, is try to make every year better than the previous year. 2 times in the scene

Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:48 Molly O'Shea In the boardroom of Sequoia Founders Fund, uh, you were at Applied Intuition, you were at all these different kinds of companies.
  • ▶ 1:04:57 Geoffrey Woo And you know, how maybe like, like, I, I, I feel like if you don't want to compete with Sequoia and recent benchmark Y Combinator, why are you in this business?

Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:54 Molly O'Shea Given the fact that this is a huge wealth creation event in LA, also in Texas, um, Sequoia, very large investment firm, many exits.

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:16 Alex Karp We gave venture returns as if you're like, you know, I don't know, you're like Peter Thiel, Sequoia, Coastal returns.

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: Backing Founders Who Redefine Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 30, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:22 Alfred Lin We don't love the word speed at Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:16 Alfred Lin So we don't love the word speed at Sequoia.
  • ▶ 26:22 Alfred Lin Um, and so we eventually broke through and got Ken comfortable with how Sequoia was going to help with the company building side.

Alfred Lin, Inside Sequoia: Launching $200M Seed Fund & $750M Venture Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 27, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Alfred Lin The best thing you can do is roll up your sleeves, pick up the pieces, and help the company get through that hardship, and that's what we do at Sequoia. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:52 Alfred Lin I think the companies that you named and many more at Sequoia were focused on outlier founders.
  • ▶ 10:28 Alfred Lin Um, I think this is a very Sequoia 2 times in the scene

Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski So I, I talked to Sequoia and my shareholders who were investors, of course, because they're always investors and everything.

How Vise Became a Unicorn With Just 40 Employees · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:50 Samir Vasavada Now it's happened a couple of times with, you know, these AI companies, but at the time it was kind of unheard of, especially for one company to raise continuous back to back financing rounds from Sequoia.

Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:34 Art Levy Stripe bridge deal was that it seemed that the, one of the investors from Sequoia on both boards was like pretty instrumental in helping to get that deal done, which you don't see very often.

How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:30 Jack Altman And so having Sequoia do your round implies that very smart investors who themselves have lots of options picked you.

Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 12, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Cameron McCord The round series B led by Sequoia, uh, specifically Alfred Lin is a partner there who will be joining nominal's board.
  • ▶ 1:38 Cameron McCord Uh, the round series B led by Sequoia, uh, specifically Alfred Lynn, uh, is a partner there who will be joining nominal board. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:14:43 Molly O'Shea Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, the list goes on. 2 times in the scene

Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 Molly O'Shea We have names like A-sixteen-Z, General Catalyst, Thrive, Sequoia, and, um, they're exiting the traditional VC world into a new category that includes PE, credit, fund-to-funds, secondaries.

How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:41 Tarek Mansoor We, I mean, the main investor, Sequoia, YC, um, uh, Schwab, uh, Kravis, um, and, uh, I mean, a bunch of others.

Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs: Investing in 'The Magically Weird' | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 20, 2024 · 3 mentions

Inside VC’s Existential Crisis: Jeff Morris Jr. on Surviving & Winning · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Molly O'Shea Chapter One is backed by Sindana Capital, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Marc Andreessen.
  • ▶ 30:38 Jeff Morris Jr. If you're Sequoia or name your large, amazing venture platform, like you're, I think you're naturally going to have the ability to, to kind of persist through

Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:43 Alex Kolicich You know, I think Sequoia had a good write up on this where they took aggregate capex on AI hardware.

David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 1, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:19 Xander Oltmann And so I, I love to partner with, you know, big multi-stage funds, um, like Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Sequoia, uh, just to, you know, name a couple.
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