Sequoia helped assemble five or six companies pre-incorporation last year
Shaun Maguire · Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN · Oct 30, 2025 · at 10:09
Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire explains how Sequoia actively incubates and forms startups rather than acting as a passive investor.
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“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 the companies, bringing the founders together.”
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