Sequoia Transfer Is a Great Venture Firm on Par With Sequoia

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Sequoia controls So much of the capital globally, you know and influences so much of the Capital globally like think about it. By allowing by doing distributions and saying here is your shares back lps they let that power dissipate. They change the default to remain involved permanently rather than always get your capital back and re-up next time Yeah, it is just fascinating and it's absolutely selfishly fantastic for me because roll off is one of my great friends This is the best possible scenario for me Gotta secure the back.

First, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from Acquired join Jason to talk portfolio construction (13:41), Roelof Botha succeeding Doug Leone at Sequoia (30:58), and to debate the takeaway from Fast's demise (52:22). Then Lon Harris from Inside Streaming joins to discuss the final two episodes of The Dropout (1:24:16)!

(00:00) Jason intros today’s show
(1:31) Catching up w/ the http://acquired.fm guys: David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert
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(13:41) Ben on investing in tech
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(22:46) How David thinks about his capital allocation
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(30:58) Talking about Doug Leone’s retirement
(52:22) Talking about the elephant in the room: Fast.co shutdown
(1:24:16) Talking with Lon Harris about the finale of “The Dropout”

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