Hey, Acquired listeners, Instead of a cold opener, we want to use this space to dedicate today's episode to the late.
Don Valentine, who passed last year.
We are excited to be working with Sequoia today to bring you something really special for part two and with that, onto the show.
Welcome to season six, episode two of of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories behind them.
I'm Ben Gilbert.
I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts.
Today we tell part two of the Sequoia Capital story.
We are going to pick up where we left off in 1996 when Sequoia's legendary founder, Don Valentine turned the firm over to Sir Michael Moritz and Doug Leone in this modern era of Sequoia.
Since 1996, Sequoia has been the investing partner behind an absurd number of the industry defining companies of the last 25 years, including Yahoo, Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit 23,andMe, HubSpot, WhatsApp, Dropbox, Airbnb, Docker, Stripe, Instacart, UiPath, DoorDash, and Robinhood.
Woo.
No kidding.
And while David and I spelunked into part one of Sequoia's history on our own, we have the very best person in the world with us today to help us do part two, right, Doug Leone.
Now, David, who is Doug?
Doug is the global Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital, in charge of overseeing the firm's many diverse businesses, which we will get into, from seed to global growth, investing across the U.S.
india and China.
Doug first joined Sequoia in 1988 after famously cold calling Don Valentine and was the champion of Sequoia's expansion from a single $150 million early stage fund to the multibillion dollar global powerhouse it is today.
Welcome, Doug, and thanks for joining us.
Thank you very much for having me.
It's my honor to be here.
It's great to have you.