Is China a Great Place to Invest?

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Theris: We have a group of partners in china. They make local decisions. And i also want people to know that for the last, i want to say, 13 years, there's never been a dime extra that anybody n you assme from china. So it is not any greed that says we're in ch China. The reason we went to china we saw globel intepreters even here. Now, clearly the world is flat. No, it's not flat. We're going to build e parallel technology stacks, and i hope we limit that to the r phase, not the de phase.

"Sequoia Capital is the greatest venture capital firm of all time. It's indisputable." - Jason

Jason chats with Sequoia's Doug Leone, a leader who shepherded the firm for four decades. They discuss great founders, governance, Sequoia's global expansion, mentoring the next generation of investors and more.

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(01:14) When Doug Leone got his start
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(22:15) Mentoring the next generation of investors
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(31:58) Sometimes incredible companies make the founder
(34:07) The greatest founders Doug has worked with
(46:30) Providing companies with a running start, but not doing too much
(53:10) Investing in China
(57:15) Entrepreneurship in Europe
(01:11:06) “Hope is not a plan. Let’s make a plan.