Doug Leone
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397 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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It's the largest MA in the pr for a private company ever done.
It's still an MA.
Uh, you know, who knows what could have happened to Wiz if we had kept it uh private, maybe would be much bigger.
But uh thirty-two billion dollars with with um with the founder and the board uh just motivated because it was a a great price, we
Decided to sell.
But we looked for the second time founders, not who had a smashing success the first time, but who had a modest success.
a Catholic Yonkers, New York.
So I guess the punchline, and I don't remember the quadrant, was all the adjectives that people throw are founders, irreverent, doesn't listen, those are things we look for.
Uh and quite frankly, those are the traits the Sequoia partners have.
And so we look for those outliers, we look for those people that are special in some ways.
Uh there
Outliers.
Uh, and they can be outliers in drive, in intellect, and knowledge in some ways, and they're missiles.
And our job as venture capital, let them do their black magic, because that's the part that we can't do, but then help them build a business.
Take this incredibly raw asset.
And if you think of the people coming out of eighty two hundred, they're not only in Israel, but they're far away from the market.
And
They and they haven't been a commercial near a commercial enterprise.
It's not that they worked at a at a tech company for five years and have seen something.
And so the magic that they do, we can't replace.
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