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Sequoia Capital (Part 1)

Acquired

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Sequoia Story - Part Two

Part one of the Sequoia story is really Don's. He was a COO chairman of Zappos that had just been acquired for over a billion dollars, but always hustling. His parents were completely uneducated, both of them hadn't finished grade school. So he ends up going to Fordham University and getting drafted into the army in the early 1950s. And this is how he gets into technology because this was still, you know, the semiconductor at this point.

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