Roelof Botha
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm the leader of a team.
I think it's more like being captain of the team.
We play team sport.
We play team sport at Sequoia.
We are equal partners.
To succeed them?
I understand the question.
Well, firstly, it is very hard to succeed them.
I think every single person at Sequoia feels this enormous burden and responsibility to try to match the performance that we've been known for.
But we have this great generational transition at Sequoia.
So Michael stepped back from day-to-day activity in 2012.
Moritz did.
Moritz did.
In 2012, Michael stepped back.
He had personal health reasons, and he stepped back.
He continued to serve on the boards that he was on, and we had him for another decade where I would ask him for advice.
As we were going through global separation that we talked about earlier, I would ask Doug and Michael, what should we be doing here?
Do you have advice for me?
It's a great way.
We have this benefit of intergenerational knowledge transfer.