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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
- Incredibly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020