
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most consequential companies. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from nearly 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Tony Xu, Lin Qiao, Eric Yuan, Christina Cacioppo, and Patrick Collison. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 30% of NASDAQ's total value. The vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
Episodes


Training General Robots for Any Task: Physical Intelligence’s Karol Hausman and Tobi Springenberg
Physical Intelligence is addressing the robotics bottleneck by developing general-purpose foundation models that move beyond traditional modular architectures—perception, planning, and control—toward end-to-end learning. By training models on diverse datasets and integrating reinforcement learning from real-world exper...

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: What Startup Founders Get Wrong About the CEO Job
In this special episode, the host interviews David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, discussing topics such as decision-making, company culture, and leadership. Solomon shares insights on when to double down on a project versus when to pull away, using the example of Goldman Sachs' consumer partnership with Apple. He emph...

Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas

Scaling AI Rocketships: ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski & Lovable’s Anton Osika
Building high-growth AI companies from Europe requires navigating unique challenges, including talent acquisition and managing rapid scaling. Founders Mati Staniszewski of Eleven Labs and Anton of Lovable emphasize the importance of maintaining "founder mode" while effectively delegating to senior teams. Success hinges...

The Rise of Generative Media: fal's Bet on Video, Infrastructure, and Speed
This interview with the Fall team—Burkay, Gorkem, and Batuhan—delves into their developer platform for generative video and image models, highlighting the unique optimization challenges compared to LLMs. They discuss the thriving open-source ecosystem for video, the rapid turnover of top video models, and emerging use ...

Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi’s Grown-Up CEO Playbook

Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility

Parker Conrad’s Revenge Fantasy

How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall

How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency

OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models

From Early Failures to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’ - Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen

Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters

Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport ft Zipline's Keller Cliffton -

Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav

Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug Leone
Contact centers are shifting from fragmented, legacy-driven operations toward continuous, AI-powered customer journeys. Large language models enable this transformation by moving beyond simple intent classification to orchestrating complex, multi-modal interactions. While the industry debates the speed of full automati...

Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent

Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For ft Agency CEO Elias Torres
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