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In 2014, Keller Cliffton Cliffton shut down his robotic toy startup to build a drone delivery network for life-saving medical supplies. Everyone said it wouldn’t work. Today, Zipline delivers for hospitals around the world. Now it’s reinventing how delivery works with Platform 2 - starting with Walmart and Chipotle in the US. This is a story of betting everything to transform the world. Featuring Keenan Wyrobek, Ryan Oksenhorn, Maggie Jim, Alfred Lin Hosted by Roelof Botha 00:00 – Chewing Glass 00:55 – Discovering Entrepreneurship 02:00 – From Robots to Real Problems 03:00 – The Vision for Global Health Logistics 04:30 – Betting on Rwanda 06:00 – Building the System 08:00 – The First Flight 09:15 – Breakthrough and Scale 11:15 – The Moment of Validation 12:30 – Platform Two: A New Bet 14:15 – Seeing Is Believing 15:45 – The Next Frontier 16:30 – Never Giving Up
Sequoia Capital1,340,938 views • 7 months ago
“Many of the best things we’ve learned have come through failures.” Ilkka Paananen built Supercell into Europe’s first decacorn by inverting the standard corporate hierarchy and radically accepting failures. Hear the story of Supercell today on a new episode of Crucible Moments.
Sequoia Capital314,123 views • 7 months ago
Last week we hosted our 2nd @Sequoia AI Ascent. We’re sharing some of the day’s most memorable talks. Hear thoughts from @mistralAI’s Arthur Mensch, Paul Jankura’s Daniela Amodei, AI Fund’s Andrew Ng, founding member of OpenAI Andrej Karpathy, and more to come.
Sequoia Capital200,895 views • 2 years ago
.Markus Villig and team built the top ride hailing company across much of Europe, Africa and the Middle East by trusting the data when everyone thought they were crazy to launch in non-obvious markets. From bootstrapping in Estonia on 5k Euros to a global leader in mobility, hear the story of Bolt on a new Crucible Moments.
Sequoia Capital54,932 views • 6 months ago
Before Palo Alto Networks became a cybersecurity giant, its founder was a teenage hacker in Israel writing some of the world’s earliest computer viruses. That curiosity led Nir Zuk to Unit 8200, to joining the early team of Check Point, and ultimately into a career-defining rivalry that shaped the next 30 years of cybersecurity. In a new episode of Crucible Moments, Nir recounts the wild early days: leaving Check Point to build his own startup, joining competitor NetScreen, driving around with a “CHKPKLR” (Check Point killer) vanity plate, and getting acquired by Juniper only to be told on day one they didn’t want his product. So he left. Others followed. And Palo Alto Networks was born.
Sequoia Capital50,793 views • 6 months ago
1/ Here’s the viral video Drew Houston and arash ferdowsi made in 2008 to break through and get people to notice Dropbox – complete with easter egg references for tech enthusiasts: > Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow” (Evenflow = Dropbox’s original name) > File invites to CEOs of Microsoft and Yahoo, who were supposedly going to crush Dropbox > Tay Zonday’s “Chocolate Rain” > HD DVD decryption key It started one of Silicon Valley’s most explosive viral growth stories. On the new episode of Crucible Moments, hear from Drew and the team about navigating the rollercoaster ride from viral sensation to building a business with staying power.
Sequoia Capital91,030 views • 1 year ago
Older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. People in their 20s and 30s use it as a life advisor. People in college use it as an operating system. Sam Altman discussed AI's generational divide, his vision for OpenAI to become your "core AI subscription" & more at AI Ascent.
Sequoia Capital60,720 views • 1 year ago
On a new episode of Long Strange Trip, Brian Halligan sits down with ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski and Lovable CEO Anton Osika – eu/acc. Their advice to anyone wanting to found a generational company: 1⃣ Obsess over the problem 2⃣Obsess over the user’s experience and iterate relentlessly to improve it 3⃣Your team is your most important decision - choose your co-founders carefully Their most important advice: do it.
Sequoia Capital19,634 views • 5 months ago
Sequoia Capital has partnered with legendary AI founders since NVIDIA's seed round in 1993. Kosta Buhler joined Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde & Ed Ludlow to explain how a new generation of AI companies is delivering value by solving real customer problems.
Sequoia Capital29,646 views • 2 years ago
