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...cofounder, Josh. Yesterday was the first time that I recognized that feeling. This isn't the thing that had been bubbling up for months. It was just like, that's weird. I got a message from him today, and I feel resentful.
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...my cofounder, Josh, and just having this recognition that we have our Friday forum where we celebrate all of our wins, and I very rarely make an appearance as a person who has an attributable win. Why do you do that cool if you don't mind me asking?
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...a founder. Gosh, I brought a team together. These are all my friends. We went to college together, or we worked on this previous two projects together. But listen, the this drummer is not able to drum at the pace we need. We need a better drummer, an
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...CEO, and I watch my back every day because I knew they could fire me and would. Whereas some founders just act like and sometimes by contractual terms they are, but they act unfireable, and I think it's not good. None of us should feel like we're inv
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...founders as well. So I think it's very difficult to, have that conversation come up for the first time in a board setting. If it's sensitive, like that, I think, you know, the valuable relationship with a founder that the board member or the VC has s
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...founders out there having to do things that they would never want to do. And I have seen some founders that you would not even think of that actually were in very, very difficult situation because of the bot. The problem is that when you start having
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...at founders, irreverent, doesn't listen. Those are things we look for. And quite frankly, those are the traits the Sequoia partners have. And so we look for those outliers. We look for those people that are special in some ways. They're outliers. And
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...of the company? All the 49 deals we've invested in so far, we feel about all of them that's a partner who did some deals that like, bloody hell, this is so important, so exciting. I would love to be a cofounder of this company. So There's a memo star
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...because we just want the best price on the next round. Exactly. But look, there are many pros also going with a multi stage fund. Some have forty, fifty years experience of supporting companies. Some partners are incredible to have on your board, but
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...the founder when it comes to the next raise. And so, for example, I focus primarily on seeds, a's, and b's. Sometimes our growth fund decides that it does the deal, and I've I've been there pitching them too. So, like, I'm very much aligned because I
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...We are commoditized product, Harry. VCs are commodity. You can press them down. Someone told me early on, the only person to to fight for your ownership is yourself. No VC will ever fight for the founder's ownership. You need to fight for it. So ther
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is the key to actually doing the best work in building the companies that matter. When you look at total AUM, can you realistically put the hours in and justify that commitment to ZEED when it's a $200,000,000 vehicle in a $25,000,000,000 pool? Cultu
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...founder? And how do you think about when enough time is? You don't want to be jumping in too fast. You don't want to be too enough time is you don't want to be jumping in too fast. You don't want to be too negative too soon. How do you think about it
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...founders can weather transitions and they can weather market transformations. Look at Reed Hastings, look at Jensen. Founders are amazing. And this PE guy, it was like, I was speaking Greek. He's like, why do you care the founder's running it? It? I'
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...for founders so they can build the biggest companies possible? So when you think with that second lens, you have to innovate. You have to think broader than just that sort of fund formation mindset.
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...a founder in sort of this this business was with venture capital dollars, the big push to hire seasoned pedigreed c suite executives. Not as easy as it sounds. Very difficult. I would really question every founder who's trying to overhire too fast in
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