Shaun Maguire
11 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2024 by Jordi Hays · said 47 times in 16 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (25), Jordi Hays (18)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2024 38 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
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- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Shaun Maguire, oldest first
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Dec 11, 2024 neutral
Mar 24, 2025 bearish
Maguire: Only one or two new defense startups per year win programs of record
“Only one or two of you a year are going to do that.
And it's going to be like of new companies and it's really hard.
and it takes both having great tech and great, you know, government BD.
And so don't under invest it in either of those.”
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Oct 30, 2025 bearish
Oct 30, 2025 positive
Sequoia invested $600,000 into Airbnb at a $3 million valuation
“Airbnb, obviously, like Sequoia was the first investor or the seed round. Sorry, not first investor. They did YC, but you know, we invested 600,000 dollars, like a three million dollar valuation, and they went through some incredibly hard times.”
Oct 30, 2025 bullish
SpaceX could eventually provide 20% to 30% of global mobile data
“I think SpaceX is going to do unbelievably well, and I am maximum bull on direct assault for SpaceX, but I think what happens, like, in the kind of most wild success scenario for SpaceX, SpaceX is providing, like, 20, 30% of the world's mobile data in a decade…”
Oct 30, 2025
Sequoia helped assemble five or six companies pre-incorporation last year
“I think in the last year, there's been at least five or six companies where we signed term sheets before, sorry, where we were involved in the putting together of companies like before, before they were even incorporated, you know, we were kind of structuring …”
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Government shutdowns expose which defense tech startups are truly indispensable
“It's a tale of haves and have nots. So I work with a few companies that are You know, getting absolutely reamed by it, but I also work with a couple companies where it hasn't really affected them, and basically, like, if you have something that the government …”