If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking. — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people.… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
