Sequoia Capital

Sequoia China

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ's total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.

Snowflake

Block (Previously Square)

Streamlit

Sunrun

Uber

UiPath

Robinhood

SentinelOne

23andMe

Airbnb

WhatsApp

Zomato

Zoom

Berkeley Lights

Bird

DoorDash

Drift

Dropbox

Evernote

Figma

First Republic Bank

Novotech

NVIDIA

Okta

Oracle

Oribi

PayPal

Qualtrics

Reddit

GitHub

Google

blinkit

HubSpot

Medallia

MongoDB

Natera

Neeva

ServiceNow

SimpliSafe

Unity

iQiyi

Freshworks

Apple

Aurora

Clover Health

Our message to founders today? Focus on the fundamentals.

Roelof Botha spoke with Emily Chang about thinking long-term, building in a challenging market, our enthusiasm about the European startup ecosystems, AI investments, and more. 

Watch the full Bloomberg interview here: 

https://lnkd.in/gzwVpfEm

On the latest episode of Crucible Moments Jack Dorsey discusses building Block, formerly known as Square. 

From a simple dongle that democractized payment processing to a hack week project that became the #1 financial services app, hear the whole story: 

https://t.co/xgoE2FHPux

Historically, overbuilding of infrastructure has incinerated capital, but it has also sparked future innovation by reducing the marginal cost of new product development. This pattern is expected to repeat in AI. 

Read the latest from David Cahn here: 
https://seq.vc/200B

💡 What you can learn from how Jack Dorsey leads? Here are some of the biggest takeaways from our latest episode of Crucible Moments.

Earlier this year, the US Surgeon General declared loneliness as a critical public health crisis affecting both individual and societal health. We Sequoia Capital are proud to partner with Renate Nyborg and the Meeno team as they help address the loneliness epidemic. Meeno is a non-judgmental AI mentor that empowers people to master the skill of social connection. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g-Bud2wz

All the companies in the credit card terminal space were making money by selling their hardware and software. Square disrupted this business model by doing the opposite. 

Hear the whole story from Jack Dorsey on the latest episode of Crucible Moments: https://t.co/xgoE2FHPux

Partnering with a giant may seem like a good way to gain wider distribution. But when that giant put your mom’s coffee shop out of business, it gets complicated.

Hear from Jack Dorsey about how Square weighed a deal with Starbucks, on the latest episode of Crucible Moments.

Visit cruciblemoments.com

The vast majority of business processes are “multiplayer” by their nature—but they’ve been artificially constrained into sequential, asynchronous workflows that can take weeks to complete. Enter PartyKit, Inc., a platform for real-time, human-to-human and human-to-AI collaboration that integrates into any app with just a few lines of code.

We at Sequoia are proud to support Sunil Pai and his team as they announce the general availability of PartyKit and work to make multiplayer experiences the norm.

Welcome to 'Act 2' of Generative AI, where the focus is on solving human problems end-to-end and applications are more comprehensive and often multi-modal. 

Read the latest from Sonya Huang here: https://seq.vc/GenAI2

Learn how Jack Dorsey built Block to be a company that is willing to face new challenges and ask tough questions on the latest episode of Crucible Moments.

Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/xgoE2FHPux

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