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Today I Learned #4 Sequoia Capital Past, Present and Future In the early 1970s, Don Valentine left his job at a semiconductor company to start his own venture capital firm. With just $3.5 million raised from friends and family, he founded Sequoia Ca

How Donald Valentine Started Sequoia Capital >Donald was Born in 1932, in USA >He Graduated from Fordham University >Started his career in sales & marketing at Raytheon (military weapon manufacturer) >Joined Fairchild Semiconductor as a sales exec

Today's topic is : Sequoia Capital Venture Capital Firm🚀📈🤑 I. Introduction : • Sequoia Capital was founded by Donald Valentine in 1972 and current partner is My favourite Roelof Botha ♥️. • Sequoia Capital created new fund called 'Peak XV Pa

Valley Tales. Jawbone, once a prominent wearable tech company, raised $930M from investors like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures. Despite its innovative designs and significant funding, Jawbone faced challenges that led to

Walter Isaacson On The Bold Choice That Set Elon Musk Apart. After making millions from Zip2 and PayPal, Elon Musk didn’t buy a yacht or an island like most would. Instead, he risked everything to build rockets and send humans to Mars. Musk believ

Europe Just Shook Up AI – And Silicon Valley Didn’t See It Coming Everyone says Europe can’t compete with America in tech. But in just 48 hours, a French startup proved them wrong. Meet Mistral AI – the company that’s making OpenAI nervous. What

They saw a world where anyone could bet on anything. At 21, they built it. Now, Kalshi & Polymarket's founders are revolutionizing prediction markets. This is how they're changing finance forever: Tarek Mansour and Shayne Coplan, both 19 at the s

The most successful founder network ever: "The PayPal Mafia" They turned a payment startup into a multi-billion dollar empire. Here's their playbook: It started with a bold bet in the late 1990s. Two ambitious startups merged: Confinity and X. T

Both of these guys are college dropouts. One built a social network. The other built Ethereum. 2 billionaires. 1 identical formula for spotting opportunities. This is how these 2 visionaries use this to shape the future of the world: Zuckerberg’s

Look at this woman. At 19, she dropped out of college. Raised millions from the biggest names for her tech company. Then built a $9 billion empire. And now she’s in prison. Here’s is the story of the greatest Silicon Valley disaster: Elizabeth