Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)

I'm Ben Gilbert and I am the co founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture capital firm in Seattle. Oh that's me. And I'm David Rosenthal. Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture capital firm in Seattle. And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor.

Based in San Francisco. And we are your hosts. Sequoia Capital needs almost no introduction. When we did the comprehensive two part series on their history, we noted that they had investe early in companies that went on to be worth over three point three trillion dollars. At the time, the market cap of the entire NASDAQ was about ten trillion dollars.

I'm sure both of these numbers are dramatically higher right now as we record this in January of twenty twenty one. At the end of last year, we saw a Sequoia double header in the two enormous IPOs of DoorDash and Airbnb. Alfred Lynn, a partner at Sequoia, sits on not one, but both of these boards. And as pointed out by Dan Primack at Axios, These were his first two IPOs after his decade at Sequoia. It certainly pays to be patient.

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