Sequoia facts
This founder previously worked on Hoot, which they call “Snapchat, but worse, and themed with owls”
Christina Cacioppo
This restaurant-slash-arcade chain was an investment in a Sequoia fund in 1980
Chuck E. Cheese aka Pizza Time Theater
This is the largest stock exchange by market cap outside US/E
Shanghai Stock Exchange
This (ex) husband-and-wife team met at Stanford, where she was director of computer facilities at the GSB
Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
Mike Moritz told the NYT in 2002 that the search for this company’s company chief executive was “interminable”
This social company, which monetizes through a subscription service rather than ads, rejected a $12B acquisition offer from Microsoft last year
Discord
After HubSpot acquired one of this founder’s earlier companies, he “turned HubSpot’s product from mediocre to wonderful” (per PG)
David Cancel
Sequoia owned 6.3% of this (other!) restaurant chain when it IPO’ed in ‘97
Il Fornaio
These two categories alone accounted for just over half of U.S. consumer spending per 2020 Bureau of Labor Statistics data
housing and transportation
This founder, when she was 14 and needed to buy a dress, canvassed the stores at the mall to get a job offer from Subway
Jaleh Rezaei
This microcontroller maker, founded in 1987, posted its 100th consecutive profitable quarter in 2015
Microchip Technology
The White House’s international tax plans faltered when a U.S. senator spurned a minimum tax on international companies at this rate
15%
This ex-Cruise founder reports, “I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger. A man on the move and just sick enough to be totally confident.”
Peter Gao
These three Sequoia portfolio companies IPO’d in 2015
Natera, Square, Sunrun
Per The Information, this is the one venture backed company that has gone public through a traditional IPO this year
Credo Technology Group