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Roelof Botha

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284 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

Doug was on a call earlier today, actually.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

We had a difficult conversation.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

I wanted his input on an important question.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And it's not because he has the authority to tell me what to do.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

It's because I seek out his advice.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

So the business we invested in that has done really well is a company called Natera.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And we made a seed investment of a million dollars in 2007 in this company.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

It's $20 billion now, right?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

$22 billion market cap.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

It was a million dollars, two people with a very raw idea.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And today they're the leading provider of prenatal testing, oncology, recurrence monitoring, organ transplant, rejection testing.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And so that company has been a huge success.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

Diagnostics, genetic diagnostics, has been a huge success.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And you think about the dividend we're still collecting today.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

from the Human Genome Project 25 years ago.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

It's incredible.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

And you've obviously seen that in some of the businesses that you've helped build as well.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

We did make an investment in a company called BridgeBio, which is helping with rare genetic disease drug development.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

But other than that, I think we just don't have the expertise for biotech.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built

You know, we don't have any... But there are still winners.