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  1. All Content from Business Insider | Legendary VC firm Sequoia just released the memo for its Apple bet in 1977 — and it shows how far the iPhone maker has come by Theron Mohamed

    Sequoia Capital has shared a relic of business history that centers on Apple and Steve Jobs.Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

    Sequoia Capital published founder Don Valentine's memo for his Apple investment in 1977.The VC firm shared it to mark the 50th anniversary of Apple's founding on April 1, 1976."Leading company in a hot biz … $600k buys 10% — very rich deal, management questionable," it reads.A legendary venture capitalist sealed one of Silicon Valley's most iconic deals when he invested in Apple back in 1977, the year after it was founded.

    Sequoia Capital celebrated Apple's 50th anniversary on Wednesday by releasing the late Don Valentine's memo about Apple for the first time — and it shows just how far the computer maker has come.

    — Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) April 1, 2026 First bite of the AppleRead the original article on Business Insider

    Read more: businessinsider.com/vc-firm-se

    #apple #sequoiacapital #stevejobs #venturecapital #sequoiacapital #stevejobs #siliconvalley

  2. Rekord-Seed für Ineffable Intelligence.

    David Silver sichert sich 1 Mrd. USD von Sequoia. Das neue Lab verzichtet auf klassische LLMs. Der technische Ansatz basiert stattdessen voll auf Reinforcement Learning.

    Algorithmen lösen Probleme durch Versuch und Irrtum in Simulationen. Eine leistungsstarke Recheninfrastruktur entsteht gerade in London.

    #IneffableIntelligence #DavidSilver #SequoiaCapital
    all-ai.de/news/news26/ineffabl

  3. ElevenLabs schließt Series-D über 500 Millionen Dollar ab. Unter Führung von Sequoia Capital steigt die Bewertung auf 11 Milliarden. Der Fokus verschiebt sich klar auf Enterprise-Lösungen sowie die Reduzierung von Latenzzeiten bei der Echtzeit-Sprachgenerierung. Die API bleibt dabei zentral für Entwickler, die präzise Kontrolle benötigen. #ElevenLabs #SequoiaCapital #Funding
    all-ai.de/news/news26/elevenla

  4. Sequoia backs Anthropic’s massive $25 bn round, even as it holds stakes in OpenAI and xAI. The move underscores the firm’s confidence in generative AI’s future and its ties to giants like Microsoft and Nvidia. What does this mean for the AI startup landscape? Dive into the details. #SequoiaCapital #AnthropicAI #OpenAI #GenerativeAI

    🔗 aidailypost.com/news/sequoia-i

  5. Sequoia backs Anthropic’s massive $25 bn round, even as it holds stakes in OpenAI and xAI. The move underscores the firm’s confidence in generative AI’s future and its ties to giants like Microsoft and Nvidia. What does this mean for the AI startup landscape? Dive into the details. #SequoiaCapital #AnthropicAI #OpenAI #GenerativeAI

    🔗 aidailypost.com/news/sequoia-i

  6. #AndreessenHorowitz, #SequoiaCapital Add to $1.2 Billion Funding Boom for #Police Tech #Startups
    Those companies illustrate the technology industry’s growing enthusiasm for making software and hardware for the government and #lawenforcement—a trend that has accelerated over the last decade by the success of #Palantir, SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s #Anduril.
    theinformation.com/briefings/a
    archive.ph/snpOC #a16z #privacy

  7. #AndreessenHorowitz, #SequoiaCapital Add to $1.2 Billion Funding Boom for #Police Tech #Startups
    Those companies illustrate the technology industry’s growing enthusiasm for making software and hardware for the government and #lawenforcement—a trend that has accelerated over the last decade by the success of #Palantir, SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s #Anduril.
    theinformation.com/briefings/a
    archive.ph/snpOC #a16z #privacy

  8. Looks like even the big guns are getting cautious. Sequoia's Roelof Botha is advising founders to pump the brakes on valuation inflation, with the firm doubling down on selectivity.

    Are we seeing the end of the 'growth at all costs' era? What's your take?

    #TechInvestment #SequoiaCapital #AI #FutureOfTech #VCFunding
    techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/sequ

  9. Klarna's IPO went pop, raising $1.4B! Sequoia's laughing all the way to the bank, as most shares were offloaded by existing investors. Smart move, or a sign of things to come?

    What are your thoughts on 'buy now, pay later' stocks?

    #TechCrunch #Fintech #IPO #SequoiaCapital #StartupLife
    techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/klar

  10. Mubi Boss Efe Cakarel Clarifies Relationship With New Investor After Backlash Over Israeli Military Ties, Sets Watchdog Body and Fund for ‘Artists at Risk’
    #Variety #Global #News #EfeCakarel #Mubi #SequoiaCapital

    variety.com/2025/film/global/m

  11. Mubi Boss Efe Cakarel Clarifies Relationship With New Investor After Backlash Over Israeli Military Ties, Sets Watchdog Body and Fund for ‘Artists at Risk’
    #Variety #Global #News #EfeCakarel #Mubi #SequoiaCapital

    variety.com/2025/film/global/m

  12. "Shaun Maguire wanted New York City voters to know about the dangers ahead. On July 4, the general partner at the industry-leading Sequoia Capital posted on X that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a secret "Islamist" who "comes from a culture of lying." Mamdani, he added, "has basically advocated for the destruction of America."

    The comments were not unusual for Maguire, a self-described moderate former Hillary Clinton voter who has become a full-throated MAGA convert, defender of Israel, and one of the most provocative right-wing political commentators among an increasingly right-leaning group of venture capitalists and founders. This time, though, the social-media dam broke, bringing a flood of critical comments from startup founders and tech workers. Hundreds of Muslim founders signed an open letter asking that Sequoia apologize and discipline Maguire. At the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, the annual "summer camp for billionaires" in Idaho, Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha was hounded with questions about Maguire, The New York Times reported. Several other people I spoke to — including Maguire's friends, colleagues, and executives from a Sequoia limited partner and a Sequoia portfolio company — wondered what might happen to tech's new leading controversialist.

    More broadly, the ongoing debate over Maguire's posts reflects a tech business riven by faultlines over the industry's positions on Israel's war in Gaza. Those disagreements, which have been tamped down by some Muslim tech workers' fear of losing their jobs or funding, are now exploding into the open."

    businessinsider.com/shaun-magu

    #USA #Trump #MAGA #SequoiaCapital #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #Mamdani #Islamophobia

  13. "Shaun Maguire wanted New York City voters to know about the dangers ahead. On July 4, the general partner at the industry-leading Sequoia Capital posted on X that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a secret "Islamist" who "comes from a culture of lying." Mamdani, he added, "has basically advocated for the destruction of America."

    The comments were not unusual for Maguire, a self-described moderate former Hillary Clinton voter who has become a full-throated MAGA convert, defender of Israel, and one of the most provocative right-wing political commentators among an increasingly right-leaning group of venture capitalists and founders. This time, though, the social-media dam broke, bringing a flood of critical comments from startup founders and tech workers. Hundreds of Muslim founders signed an open letter asking that Sequoia apologize and discipline Maguire. At the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, the annual "summer camp for billionaires" in Idaho, Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha was hounded with questions about Maguire, The New York Times reported. Several other people I spoke to — including Maguire's friends, colleagues, and executives from a Sequoia limited partner and a Sequoia portfolio company — wondered what might happen to tech's new leading controversialist.

    More broadly, the ongoing debate over Maguire's posts reflects a tech business riven by faultlines over the industry's positions on Israel's war in Gaza. Those disagreements, which have been tamped down by some Muslim tech workers' fear of losing their jobs or funding, are now exploding into the open."

    businessinsider.com/shaun-magu

    #USA #Trump #MAGA #SequoiaCapital #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #Mamdani #Islamophobia

  14. On the #xAI purchase of #X (#Twitter)

    Because both companies are privately held & controlled by #Musk, the transaction likely amounts to a #stock swap, with X investors getting paid out in xAI shares. The companies have a number of mutual investors, including venture firms #AndreessenHorowitz & #SequoiaCapital, as well as #Fidelity Management, #VyCapital & #SaudiArabia’s Kingdom Holding Co.

    #law #securities #SEC
    cnbc.com/2025/03/28/elon-musk-

  15. On the #xAI purchase of #X (#Twitter)

    Because both companies are privately held & controlled by #Musk, the transaction likely amounts to a #stock swap, with X investors getting paid out in xAI shares. The companies have a number of mutual investors, including venture firms #AndreessenHorowitz & #SequoiaCapital, as well as #Fidelity Management, #VyCapital & #SaudiArabia’s Kingdom Holding Co.

    #law #securities #SEC
    cnbc.com/2025/03/28/elon-musk-

  16. nothing to see here, just a couple of the Nerd Reich's "free speech absolutists" threatening to use state violence to compel speech.

    (ICYMI what's happening here is that one of the guys from #a16z who bought #Twitter with #ElonMusk is threatening advertisers with criminal prosecution if they don't spend enough money advertising on #X. #ShaunMaguire is a crypto bro at #SequoiaCapital.)

    #Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Sequoia #SequoiaCapital #FreeSpeech #NerdReich #TheNerdReich #crypto #cryptocurrency

  17. nothing to see here, just a couple of the Nerd Reich's "free speech absolutists" threatening to use state violence to compel speech.

    (ICYMI what's happening here is that one of the guys from #a16z who bought #Twitter with #ElonMusk is threatening advertisers with criminal prosecution if they don't spend enough money advertising on #X. #ShaunMaguire is a crypto bro at #SequoiaCapital.)

    #Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Sequoia #SequoiaCapital #FreeSpeech #NerdReich #TheNerdReich #crypto #cryptocurrency

  18. One week earlier, #Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts of falsifying business records to suppress a sex scandal. The day the verdict came down, #ShaunMaguire, a #SiliconValley #VC from #SequoiaCapital, announced…that he was giving $300k to Trump. But the real money was about to flow. The cheapest ticket to the fundraiser was $50k, & it was $300k to attend a smaller dinner w/Trump after the reception. The money would go directly to the campaign via Trump’s joint fund-raising cmte w/the #RNC

  19. One week earlier, #Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts of falsifying business records to suppress a sex scandal. The day the verdict came down, #ShaunMaguire, a #SiliconValley #VC from #SequoiaCapital, announced…that he was giving $300k to Trump. But the real money was about to flow. The cheapest ticket to the fundraiser was $50k, & it was $300k to attend a smaller dinner w/Trump after the reception. The money would go directly to the campaign via Trump’s joint fund-raising cmte w/the #RNC

  20. "X" FKA "Twitter" owners list made public by court order.

    There's at least one Saudi (Alwaleed bin Talal), some Qataris (Q Tetris Holding), one Palantir founder (Lonsdale / 8VC), some crypto bro scumbags (a16z / Andreessen Horowitz; see my pinned toot for more on that), more crypto scumbags (Binance), lot of Fidelity funds, that Gerber Kawasaki Tesla bro, P. Diddy, Sequoia, Bill Ackman, Saudi Kingdom fund, Larry Ellison, more crypto bros, fintech bros, tech bros, even MORE crypto bros...

    tl;dr crypto bros own twitter now. wonder why they wanted it.

    definitely the kind of people you want in charge of the free speech platform.

    #Qatar #Palantir #8VC #a16z #AndreessenHorowitz #Binance #PuffDaddy #PDiddy #Sequoia #SequoiaCapital #BillAckman

  21. "X" FKA "Twitter" owners list made public by court order.

    There's at least one Saudi (Alwaleed bin Talal), some Qataris (Q Tetris Holding), one Palantir founder (Lonsdale / 8VC), some crypto bro scumbags (a16z / Andreessen Horowitz; see my pinned toot for more on that), more crypto scumbags (Binance), lot of Fidelity funds, that Gerber Kawasaki Tesla bro, P. Diddy, Sequoia, Bill Ackman, Saudi Kingdom fund, Larry Ellison, more crypto bros, fintech bros, tech bros, even MORE crypto bros...

    tl;dr crypto bros own twitter now. wonder why they wanted it.

    definitely the kind of people you want in charge of the free speech platform.

    #Qatar #Palantir #8VC #a16z #AndreessenHorowitz #Binance #PuffDaddy #PDiddy #Sequoia #SequoiaCapital #BillAckman

  22. Some extracts from my pinned toot concerning the ways in which #Uniswap is a particularly diabolical means of capital extraction devised by #TheNerdReich bros of #a16z, #SequoiaCapital, and the rest (and their obscenely well paid and equally obscenely dishonest lawyers) and how the capital being extracted is currently being funneled into the 2024 election.

    (The specifics of the electoral corruption are better documented by @molly0xfff; this is more an in depth explainer of the mechanics of one of The Nerd Reich's more effective grifts.)

    #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich

  23. Some extracts from my pinned toot concerning the ways in which #Uniswap is a particularly diabolical means of capital extraction devised by #TheNerdReich bros of #a16z, #SequoiaCapital, and the rest (and their obscenely well paid and equally obscenely dishonest lawyers) and how the capital being extracted is currently being funneled into the 2024 election.

    (The specifics of the electoral corruption are better documented by @molly0xfff; this is more an in depth explainer of the mechanics of one of The Nerd Reich's more effective grifts.)

    #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich

  24. #TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Of Tech Bros And Trumpers

    The reason so many Silicon Valley billionaires suddenly decided to back #DonaldTrump is not the mystery the media is making it out to be.

    tl;dr The billionaires backing #Trump are crypto bros and they want to continue profiting from committing various kinds of crimes.

    This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how some of these bros profit by investing in companies like #Uniswap that create excellent tools for #NorthKorea to launder stolen money with a passing explanation of how #Coinbase facilitates the overall system.

    Ω👇Ω
    cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-

    #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich

  25. #TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Of Tech Bros And Trumpers

    The reason so many Silicon Valley billionaires suddenly decided to back #DonaldTrump is not the mystery the media is making it out to be.

    tl;dr The billionaires backing #Trump are crypto bros and they want to continue profiting from committing various kinds of crimes.

    This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how some of these bros profit by investing in companies like #Uniswap that create excellent tools for #NorthKorea to launder stolen money with a passing explanation of how #Coinbase facilitates the overall system.

    Ω👇Ω
    cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-

    #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich

  26. Those excited by e recent rise of #bitcoin may want to watch #NHK World's insightful #documentary, The Rise and Fall of a #Crypto Star, tt showed how Sam Bankman-Fried's #FTX hooked global investors like #sequoiacapital & others (incl'g #sovereignfunds) reportedly due to #FOMO -- seemingly attracted to #SBF guise of #EffectiveAltruism, whilst recording FTX's billion-$ operations with #QuickBooks & yet no #investor caught them prior to their sudden #bankruptcy!? #Singapore
    www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/

  27. How did #China get so good at chips and #AI?
    House Select Committee on the China Communist Party (CCP) investigation revealed Thursday that five #venturecapital funds – #GGVCapital, #GSRVentures, #QualcommVentures, #SequoiaCapital, and #WaldenInternational – were responsible for injecting billions of dollars into Chinese AI and #semiconductor businesses tied to #humanrights abuses and the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
    #Capitalism made c#ommunism stronger
    theregister.com/2024/02/09/inv

  28. How did #China get so good at chips and #AI?
    House Select Committee on the China Communist Party (CCP) investigation revealed Thursday that five #venturecapital funds – #GGVCapital, #GSRVentures, #QualcommVentures, #SequoiaCapital, and #WaldenInternational – were responsible for injecting billions of dollars into Chinese AI and #semiconductor businesses tied to #humanrights abuses and the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
    #Capitalism made c#ommunism stronger
    theregister.com/2024/02/09/inv

  29. Hear Shai Oster offer his thoughts on why Sequoia Capital has decided to split off their India & Southeast Asia despite there being no current geopolitical tensions with India, unlike the situation in China.

    Main Site: analyse.asia/the-state-of-chin
    Full YouTube Video: youtu.be/8rcRVC9wlnc
    Newsletter Signup: analyse.asia/#/portal/signup
    LinkedIn Page: linkedin.com/company/analyse-a

    #ShaiOster #ChinaTech #alibaba #SequoiaCapital #SequoiaChina #HongShan #IPO #SequoiaIndia #PeakXV #venturecapital #vcasia