Sequoia Capital's Plan to Back 'Outlier' Founders

Sequoia Capital Partner Jess Lee speaks exclusively with Emily Chang about Arc, a seed-stage catalyst for founders. They also discuss the macroeconomic environment, future valuations, and backing women-led startups.

[@nat.serrano]

Outliers means = graduated from Stanford, Harvard etc and ex-Meta, ex-Google, friends with a VC (for warm introductions), etc

[@tvm73836]

But that hardly makes someone a startup person.

[@nat.serrano]

@@tvm73836 according to VC investors, yes

[@tvm73836]

@@nat.serrano PayPal mafia?

[@JoaoPedro-fj3td]

Unfortunately, this is a major trend 😢

[@mister369]

Not much of an outlier, plenty of successful founders come from those 4

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I was at Sequoia about 10 years ago. It is an amazing company, they finance my internet startup, but now it is something very different. We expect most successful startup in the next decade. Good job Sequoia!

[@thomasbao4477]

That bookshelf is fire!!

[@teeletsetse445]

Fact! I was staring at it and the whole time salivating.

[@saraeissa4954]

ToonCave will be applying! So glad this popped up on my feed!

[@itsallgood21]

Amazing insights, thanks Jess!

[@jl6523]

“The complexion of who makes funding decisions affects what problems and customers get served in the world by the tech industry.” I felt that.

[@mediajosh]

Wow Sandman series, I trust this investor.

[@AZNGoSu]

Jess really said “wen lambo?” LOL

[@christopherlo9446]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fredrickyap6989]

That sandman

[@skepticstoic]

Polyvore was such a shame what it turned into after yahoo acquired it.

[@HuyTran-po8je]

Neil Gaiman: Sandman!!!!!!!

[@halams3772]

Don literally said that Sequoia does not invest in people, they invest in markets. Just blending together with the other VCs now... sad

[@BigDataLogin]

5:58 Don valentine

[@talatuabdulkareem8090]

* I will forever be indebted to you, you have changed my entire life and I will continue to preach on your name for the world' to hear that you save me from huge financial debt with little investment thank you very much Expert Sophia

[@maxwelledisol5522]

She helped recovered what I lost trading on my self

[@garbasadiya9375]

I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Mrs Sophia

[@garbasadiya9375]

I think that she is the best broker I ever seen

[@isaacsimon1840]

She is real and trustworthy

[@luislil3988]

She is active on Tele Gram 👇

[@canergs1504]

Well, that didn‘t age well

[@FrancescMuro]

Save the babies ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@SpencerRJohnson]

She never lets guest actually talk Jesus

[@Sirwastealot]

Doesn't seem so bad. Every answer i'm seeing her wait for the guest to finish talking before the next one. A couple of times she interrupted with a follow up.

[@prashanttayshetye9068]

It is a distraction

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

LOL - First Time Watching Emily Chang?

[@doords]

@@andre-le-bone-aparte She used to be watchable.

[@tvm73836]

Because she calls bs early

[@JeremAl]

YCombinator copycats

[@davidw8668]

Mediocre interview with a disappointing political ending. 😕

[@RR-et6zp]

lol gender race games

[@g.eranken5909]

What a no answer …. where is the money ?

[@nadred5396]

Yea, listen to someone who looks 25 years old to teach you how financial markets worked in the dot com bubble when they were 5 years old.

[@thomasbao4477]

Jess Lee is 39. She was previously CEO of Polyvore, which Yahoo acquired for ~200M.

[@tigerbojiteol]

inferiority complex alert lol

[@andy68686]

she went to Stanford, worked for Google, sold her startup to Yahoo for $200M and now a partner at one of the biggests VCs on the planet. What about you? What have you done with your life?

[@PallB209]

Nothing against Jess Lee, but Sequoia's IPO performance has been terrible, Airbnb -25%, Snowflake -40%, Confluent -45%, DoorDash -58%, BridgeBio -62%, Amplitude -71%, Sumo Logic -71%, 23AndMe -72%, Lemonade -72%, UIPath -74%, Robinhood -74%, Aurora -76%, Bird -80%, Berkeley Lights -93%, Embark Technology -96%

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

@@andy68686 She’s also extremely eloquent to top it off.