David Eckstein

I would write up all of his memos for him and he would submit it and he would get approval and he would make these investments.

He's like, David's been helping me with all of my Sequoia Scout investments for the last six months.

Either you make him a Sequoia Scout or I quit.

And then you can make him a Sequoia Scout with my spot.

And to me, this was my dream.

Like when I would run on the treadmill and envision whatever my goal was, it was to become a Sequoia Scout.

I wanted to be a Sequoia Scout more than anything.

And here he was, David Ulovich was advancing this opportunity for me.

And Sequoia, I remember, wrote back and said, no, no, no, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Don't quit being a Sequoia scout.

We'll meet him.

And so I got to meet Ruloff, who is amazing, just such an inspiration, such a leader.

And I sat down with him for an hour.

And besides being the smartest human I've ever met, at the end of the conversation, he said, okay, you're in, you're a Sequoia scout.

And then over the next

Five, six years, I made about 70 investments.

And so that allowed me to invest in seed and series A companies.

But what I realized is a lot of my CFO peers were series B, series C, and series D CFOs, including my old CFO Bert Podbear, who is the CFO of CrowdStrike, my old CFO or coworker, Jenny Saran, who became the CFO of Smartsheet.

My friend Adriel Larez, who is the CFO of Fastly.