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Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital: "Target Big Markets"

Since founding Sequoia Capital in 1972, Don Valentine has financed many of the companies (Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Cisco, Google, YouTube, etc.) that have been Silicon Valley's biggest technology and business success stories.

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Released
October 11, 2010
Duration
1h 0m
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Stanford Graduate School of Business
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Since founding Sequoia Capital in 1972, Don Valentine has financed many of the companies (Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Cisco, Google, YouTube, etc.) that have been Silicon Valley's biggest technology and business success stories. In this View From The Top talk, he describes some of the insights that allowed him to lead Sequoia through almost four decades of disruptive changes, creating several new industries along the way. More about the View From The Top speaker series: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/vftt All View From The Top videos: http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC5C14B375A7F2FEA8

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital: "Target Big Markets" explores Don Valentine explains Sequoia’s market-first approach to building big companies Don Valentine explains that Sequoia Capital defines its investing edge as choosing big, dynamic markets rather than selecting founders based on credentials or perceived brilliance.

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