Sequoia's senior partner, Michael Moritz, showed up at Houston and Ferdowsi's apartment the following Saturday morning.
Last year, Michael Moritz announced he was stepping back from management duties at Sequoia.
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Neil Shen, founding managing partner of Sequoia Capital China, ranked No. 15 on the list.
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Working out of offices at Greylock and Sequoia, he came back with the next-generation firewall.
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In 1972, Valentine launched Sequoia Capital and pioneered the Silicon Valley venture capital industry.
The state eventually decided to put its money on touchscreen machines from Sequoia Voting Systems.
In February Sequoia Capital co-hosted a recruiting event for its portfolio companies, including Dropbox Inc.
Bain Capital Ventures will join existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures, Nye wrote.
NetQin Mobile, backed by Sequoia GSR, Ceyuan and Fidelity, is in the lineup too.
Bessemer met with at least six pet companies, Benchmark with 13 and Sequoia with 8.
Sequoia called back that day to invite Reisman to an all-partners meeting on Monday.
By the time he did, Sequoia had backed rival MP3.com, which went public six months later.
Should all go well, Sequoia is scheduled to begin a life of government work in March.
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Investors Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Palomar Ventures are betting that it will.
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Other U.S. firms, such as Sequoia, Accel, Matrix and IDG, have separate or affiliated funds in China.
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Current Airbnb investors Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are also expected to participate in the new round.
Interns who picked up the quarter were thought to have the right attitude to work for Sequoia.
Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital had been a sales vice president at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s.
Investors in Cotendo include Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital, Presidio Ventures, Citrix and Juniper.
That Friday morning in early February, she pitched a startup idea to the venture firm Sequoia Capital.
The rumor long existed that Sequoia would test is intern applicants in a rather, um, novel way.
Felten analyzed the results tape from one of the Sequoia AVC Advantage machines used in Pennsauken, N.
It was immensely profitable for Sequoia, which reportedly earned more than 60% each year for its investors.
When Sequoia called, he was about to quit Intermec, after his bosses nixed his bold expansion plans.
Other firms that have taken interest in Brazil include Silicon Valley firms Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.
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TokBox got started in 2007 as a destination video chat site funded by Sequoia Capital and others.
Moritz, who is chairman of Sequoia Capital, studied history at Christ Church College, Oxford, and graduated in 1976.
Currently LinkedIn is funded by Sequoia Capital the same company that was originally behind Google, Yahoo and PayPal.
The Giant Sequoia half-day trail ride takes you into Mariposa Grove, where the breathtaking 2, 000-year-old redwood trees live.
Venture capital firms, such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund, began to sprout like poppies.
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