For years the concept of green power was seductive—who wouldn’t want to help the planet while saving money? The reality, however, often revealed itself to be a nightmare: too expensive, too r...
What makes a company great? And why do some companies succeed while others never get off the ground? Over the last four decades, we’ve noticed a pattern of a few of the elements that seem to be...
Mark Gilreath took aim at a noble cause: to serve the GI caregivers who daily help patients. Every year, roughly 50,000 people die from colorectal cancer in the United States. This makes colorec...
When we first met and partnered with David Ulevitch in 2009, OpenDNS was already well known and profitable, having grown to tens of millions of users in its first few years. It was clear there w...
It’s hard to imagine now, but when Bob Tinker, Suresh Batchu and Ajay Mishra first walked through the doors at Sequoia in January 2008, building a business around enterprise mobility seemed lik...
DoorDash Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia Capital : doordashblog : > We’re excited to announce that we have raised $17.3 million in > Series A funding. > > The round w...
“Most companies, when they’re doing good, they enjoy today’s wonderful life. They don’t worry about five years later—but I worry about five years later.” - Jack Ma, Alibaba via WSJ
What company: Max, Jan, Kevin, John, Jerry, Adi, Fred, Arash, Elon, Brian, Reid, Julia and Chad. http://seq.vc/e4u1
We’re delighted to add our voices to the growing choir shouting words of admiration and congratulations to Sam Altman on his new role as president of YC. We were fortunate to have gotten to k...
WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion. It’s a spectacular milestone for the company’s co-founders Jan ...
In July 2009, Varun Mehta—a first-time founder—was driving toward a courageous decision: giving up a sure success for a long shot at disrupting a major category. Nimble Storage , the compan...
““I loved Trivial Pursuit as a child, so I was drawn to Thor’s marvelous vision of developing a trivia network on mobile that thoughtfully integrates social features. QuizUp taps our desire...
Giving away $30 billion is hard—at least if you want to do it well. Bill Gates, the world’s greatest active philanthropist, has not only given away that much, but he’s built a foundation ...
Exceptional entrepreneurs can still succeed in a market that already seems saturated, especially if they combine a simpler product with a better business model. That’s the lesson from Barracuda...
Smartphones have redefined people’s expectations for how and where they work. These days, you can respond to an email from an airplane and update a website from the beach. But don’t you d...
The modern shopper looks very different from the consumer of just a decade ago. Not only can she buy just about anything she wants from any number of online stores, but now that she has a smartph...
In September 2004, Ashar Aziz took up residence at Sequoia, working by himself out of a windowless office that’s since become a server closet. He had recently shared with us his vision for ho...
People are buying an ever-growing number of things through app stores, including music, games and productivity tools. This has given rise to a new digital economy that has emerged over the last...
The way people work is changing in profound ways, as a new class of company - the data factory - makes powerful tools accessible to the masses for the first time. The changes wrought by these dat...
So much of our lives are public these days. We share updates on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and, in the age of smartphone cameras and 4G networks, every interaction we have could end up onli...