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20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Sequoia China
It is better to do this at the seed state because then you can help them set the right DNA and so on. So why were we invested in Zoom? I can tell you that Eric Juan didn't need money, but he needed a Carla Shambhaki. And the same can be said for many of us. It's not as easy as investing early. It's everything else that goes with investing early. That's the tough part. But I do want to ask Doug, in terms of the geography and the expansions of Sequoia, brand and activity,. Starting on geography in 2005, you made the decision to do Sequoia China. Why was that?
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