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Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator May 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:59 Paul Graham Um, and when Dropbox went out to Silicon Valley, they came to the attention of Sequoia. 3 times in the scene

The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:07 Harj Taggar Juicebox is an AI sourcing platform backed by Sequoia and used by Ramp, Cursor, and Perplexity to recruit the best talent in the world.

How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:18 Brad Flora About 11 years ago when I did YC, I had a chance to have a five-minute meeting with Michael Moritz, who at the time was a partner at Sequoia Capital, legendary VC, and I was so excited for this meeting.

Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator Dec 18, 2019 · 1 mention

Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator Dec 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:34 Matt Cutts If you go back, I think Google had raised like twenty five million dollars, uh, from, you know, like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia or whatever.

Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator Jun 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:23 Craig Cannon Like, maybe you shouldn't try your pitch on Sequoia the first time, for example, right?

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:17 Elad Gil And then we ended up having Sequoia in the round, uh, Reid Hoffman when he was still an individual, Naval from Angelus, so we had a bunch of really great, uh, people line up, um,

Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator May 31, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:47 Liz Wessel You've seen, he's at Sequoia, and I said, you've seen so many successful founders grow huge businesses.
  • ▶ 8:17 Liz Wessel For example, uh, I don't remember what Roloff's email is, but I probably would have looked up Sequoia's domain, so let's just say it's Sequoia.com. 2 times in the scene

Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator Mar 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:52 Andy Bromberg So, we move into the 19 seventies, ah, you know, some more names that you might recognize here, KP, Mayfield, CRV, Seven Rose and Sequoia, NEA, all funded in this time.

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:53 Elad Gil And Doug Leone, uh, one of the sort of old school major partners at Sequoia puts this extremely succinctly.
  • ▶ 42:04 Pejman Nozad Um, he went on the cover of Forbes in 2012 after raising a massive round at around four billion dollars valuation, and he shared this story of Sequoia Capital doing the seed round, and I, I played a role in that connection over there, and…

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 2 mentions

Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:24 Sam Altman Um, Sequoia says this thing that I've always liked, which is, you cannot create a technology wave.

Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Feb 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:42 Geoff Ralston So a lot of companies set up in, on Sand Hill Road, and you had sort of the classic early VCs from, from, you know, Draper starting Sutter Hill, and Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia all began back in those early days.

Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:53 Matt Hackett Investor, you know, sitting at Sequoia, and Sequoia Partners asks a question, and we both, like, look at each other and start to answer at the same time. 2 times in the scene

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:20 Tikhon Bernstam Are bigger than, like, the Series A that Dropbox and Airbnb did with Sequoia, which I think was roughly a mil each.
  • ▶ 29:20 Tikhon Bernstam Like, I mean, nowadays the typical seed round out of YC is higher than like the Series A post money that Sequoia did in Dropbox and an Airbnb.

Founders of Science Exchange, Goldbely, and The Flex Company Discuss Fundraising · Y Combinator Aug 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:44 Erica Jensen We just asked, like, before, like, if Sequoia is your, like, super hot dream boat, don't set that up as your first meeting.

Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:07 Drew Houston and so I remember we, I had a coffee meeting set up, um, and mine at Sequoia, our first venture investors were really helpful in connecting me with other entrepreneurs, and so,
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