Sequoia Capital: Roelof Botha at Stanford's E-Bootcamp 2011

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Roelof Botha's keynote from BASES Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (E-Bootcamp) at Stanford.

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Humble BeginningsTrue Entrepreneur Tales

Roelof Botha

Now

Then

Now

Then

2011

Steve Jobs

1976

Steve WozniakSteve Jobs

Consumer electronicsStage Sector Investment

Venture Technology $100K

2011

John Riccitiello

1982

Trip Hawkins

Consumer entertainment softwareStage Sector Investment

Venture Technology $900K

2011

John Chambers

1987

Sandy LernerLen Bosack

Networking networksStage Sector Investment

Venture Technology 1.9M

2011

Carol Bartz

1994

Jerry YangDavid Filo

Internet communications, commerce & mediaStage Sector Investment

Venture Internet 900K

2011

Larry Page

1998

Larry PageSergey Brin

Ultimate search engineStage Sector Investment

Venture Internet 6M

2011

Scott Thompson

1998

Peter ThielElon Muskv

Digital payments servicesStage Sector Investment

Financial 3.7M

Max Levchin

2011

Tony Hsieh

1999

Nick Swinmurn

Shoe retail servicesStage Sector Investment

Growth Internet 1.1M

2011

Jeff Weiner

2003

Reid Hoffman

Business social networking servicesStage Sector Investment

Venture Internet 4M

2011

Steve ChenChad Hurley

2005

Steve ChenChad HurleyJawed Karim

Internet mediaStage Sector Investment

Venture Internet 3.5M

2011

Omar Hamoui

2006

Omar Hamoui

Mobile advertising marketplace servicesStage Sector Investment

Venture Mobile 3.3M

Commonalities - Yesterday

Commonalities - Today

The Creative Process

Imagination PerseveranceInitiative

✔ Underdogs

✔ Insight

✔ Personal

✔ Focused

✔ Unconventional

✔ Iterate

✔ Agility

✔ Relentless

✔ Long-term

The Founders Code™

Elements of a Sustainable Company

✔ Clarity of purpose

✔ Spectacular market

✔ Alleviate customer pain

✔ Team DNA

✔ Singular product

✔ Real operating margins

✔ Frugality

✔ Inferno with a single match

They Were Once in Your Shoes

Welcome to

eBootcamp Class of

2011

Thank You

botha@sequoiacap.com