Name: 紅杉資本的Doug Leone談運氣與冒險 (Sequoia Capital's Doug Leone on Luck & Taking Risks)
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Well we're all really happy to have you here today.

>> I remember one of the first times that we spoke when you

you asked me if this was a forum where you could be, quote unquote, provocative.

And so while recognizing that, some members of your family are in

the audience today and we don't wanna get too far across the line.

I wanna make sure we give you a chance to push the envelope a little bit.

So, over the next 40 minutes or so we're gonna cover a, a few topics.

I wanna talk about your leadership at Sequoia and

how it's gotten to the point where it is today.

And about the Silicon Valley ecosystem as a whole.

As you mentioned before there's a lot of ecos,

there's a lot of confusion out there about it.

But first I wanna touch on what makes you who you are, your background.

The Dean talked a lot about you coming over here as an immigrant at the age

Working blue collar jobs and vowing to succeed in business.

Forbes wrote Leoni still carries himself like a hard luck striver, scrambling for

And you said a lot of what keeps you going is fear.

So tell me a bit more about that experience coming over here as

an immigrant, and why that drives you today and

>> Well you know, it's quite amusing when I think back of all the seemingless,

very small things that really played a pivotal role.

when the CEO of a small company said, go clean the bathrooms.

And I read, and I heard that boy, it starts at the bottom.

And I remember cleaning the bathrooms that day and

saying, I got you now because you led me into the business world.

So that's a vignette that says, I'm now in and now I'm gonna get you all.

And get you all I didn't mean in a bad way now,

you know, now I only have one place to go but up.

The other thing, as I look back that was quite formative, being an only child,

But a pretty rough high school, three or four, four years.

You know, the high school years are tender years.

It's the first time that girls come into play and so on.

I have to catch myself from letting my ego and

my insecurities get the best of me as I want my high

school friends who I haven't seen for 40 years realize how wrong they were.

And I think it's humorous that at the age of 57,

I still think about the high school friends.

So, those are the little things that really, really,

really push me to want to, to want to achieve.

And my life really wends into, into three different groups.

In the first few years, it was about making it.

Can I make it, can I make it, can I make it?

From the age of 35 to 50, I just wanted to be the very best.

From 50, 55 to this point of 57 and hopefully through the end of my career,

the thing that really, really drives me is working with younger people.

It's a kind of a rude line, but I don't wanna hang out with people like me.

And so at Sequoia Capital, finding a young,

talented partner, investor, employee, and

helping them in the greatest way possible is really what keeps me going now.

Cuz I know a lot of our classmates may be interested in

that right now given that it's recruiting season.

but the path to success is one that I think is not an obvious one.

You graduated from graduate school in the East Coast and decided to

come back to the West Coast and work at Sequoia after having a sales background.

You know, why, why'd you make that choice?

>> Yeah. >> Then but it's not what it is today.

Sequoia was good but it's not what it is today.

What drove you to come back here, what did you see?

So my first job in sales was selling north of 96th Street in New York City.

Now it's cool to be north of 96th street.

Let me tell you, 1979 it wasn't cool to be north of 96th street.

It was unsafe to walk north of 96th street.

And, but, but that location had one important thing,

it had Columbia University, where someone explained to me what the Arpanet was.

And that caused me to get a job at Sun Microsystems.

you could say I made my own break because I asked some questions.

But that unlucky break led to a lucky break.

Sun Microsystem employee number 50 something, I can't remember.

I was 26, 27, selling you know, a boatload of computer.

Got promoted, and then I met Vinod Costla.

This guy's as old as I am, he's a board member.

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