Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

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I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early stage venture fund in Seattle. And I'm David Rosenthal, and I am a general partner at Wave Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on marketplaces based in San Francisco. And we, as you know. are your hosts. Today we are talking about the absolutely legendary Sequoia Capital. And because it would be inappropriate to try to cover Sequoia's immaculate history in just one episode. This is only part one.

And typically I try and throw out some stats in this section about why the company that we're covering on this episode is important. Well today I'm only gonna throw out one. Since its founding in nineteen seventy two, the firm has helped to catalyze companies that now represent three point three trillion dollars of public market value.

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