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SEQUOIA CAPITAL CONFIDENTIAL 2
Start an Inferno with a MatchStanford Startup School
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They Didn’t Need a Lot of Money to Start (<$2M)
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…But Got Fairly Big
$264 M
~$ 500,000M
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Not Only Great P&Ls, Great Companies
Steve Wozniak & Steve JobsApple
Trip HawkinsElectronic Arts
Sandy Lerner & Len BosackCisco
Jerry Yang & David FiloYahoo
Larry Page & Sergey BrinGoogle
Max Levchin& Peter ThielPayPal
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed KarimYouTube
Jen-Hsun HuangnVidia
Alfred Lin & Tony HsiehZappos
Trevor Healy & Daniel MattesJajah
Omar HamouiAdMob
Steve StreitGreen Dot
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Its Not About Being Small
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They Thought Differently . . . They Had To
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They Didn’t Throw Money at Problems
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They Were More Clever
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They Built Simple Easy-to-Use Products
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They Were More Focused
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They Rang the Cash Register Early
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They Stayed Close to the Customer
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They Moved with Greater Agility
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Its Not Just About Being Small
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Its About Doing More With Less
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Achates Power
Dave Johnson
Diesel engine systems
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Ship Something Early
Steve & Steve Sandy & Len Larry & Sergey
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Put a Price on it
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AirBnB
Brian CheskyJoe GrebbiaNathanBlecharczyk
Peer-to-peer travel network
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We Love Ramen Profitable
Cheap PCs
Free Software
Low Cost Infrastructures
User Generated Content
Viral Distribution
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