Crucible Moments
door Sequoia Capital
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Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That…
Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That…
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A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory. In Season 2, hear from founders and leaders like Steve Chen of YouTube, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Frank Slootman of ServiceNow and Tony Xu of DoorDash, Steve Huffman of Reddit and more about how they navigated the challenges and opportunities that defined their stories. Hosted by Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital.
The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.
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- Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity · 47 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 4In the early 2000s, the cybersecurity industry was dominated by incumbents focused on high margins, not innovation. Nir Zuk tells the story of how, frustrated by this stagnant…
- Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility · 43 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 3At 19, Markus Villig borrowed €5,000 from his parents to fix Estonia's broken taxi system. What happened next defied every conventional startup playbook. Markus started by…
- Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen - How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’ · 43 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 2Founder and CEO Ilkka Paananen set out to create a different kind of game company—one where the game development teams would have decision-making power, not upper management…
- Zipline ft Keller Cliffton - Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport · 46 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 1In 2014, Keller Cliffton made an audacious pivot: shut down his robotic toy company and rebuild it as an autonomous drone delivery system for life-saving medical supplies…
- Crucible Moments Season 3: Coming October 23 · 3 minPreviously on Crucible Moments, we explored the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant names in technology. Now, we're returning for a brand new season. Join…
- Nubank ft. David Vélez - An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System · 50 min · Seizoen 1 Aflevering 10When Nubank started 10 years ago, a few big banks in Brazil had a stranglehold on the largest economy in Latin America: they controlled nearly all the market share, and imposed…
- Dropbox ft. Drew Houston - How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself · 51 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 9A scrappy upstart taking on hyperscalers in a category with lots of hand-wavers, Dropbox became the canonical example of Silicon Valley viral growth, adding 50 million users in…
- LIVE: ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Unlocking Elite Level Execution · 32 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 9Earlier this season we heard the startup story of ServiceNow—from Fred Luddy setting out to reinvent IT workflows as a first-time founder, to Frank Slootman joining as CEO to…
- Robinhood ft. Vlad Tenev - Reinventing Finance for a New Generation · 48 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 8Millions of Americans use their smartphones to invest and manage their finances every day—but before Robinhood started in 2013, finance looked very different. Investing was…
- YouTube ft. Steve Chen - 18 Months That Changed the Internet · 49 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 7This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot that succeeded against all odds. When cofounders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley…
- Natera ft. Matthew Rabinowitz - A Personal Mission That Led to a Biotech Revolution · 53 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 6Founder Matthew Rabinowitz opens up about the intensely personal journey that set him on a course to revolutionizing healthcare. A PhD in electrical engineering, he had no…
- LIVE: DoorDash’s Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi Talk Scaling Operational Excellence · 30 min · Seizoen 2Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi share insights from building two of the world's most successful delivery platforms—DoorDash and Wolt—which merged in 2022 to create an $80B GOV business…
- DoorDash ft. Tony Xu - The “Wrong” Moves That Built a Giant · 53 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 5DoorDash faced skeptics from the start. Grubhub, Delivery.com, and others were already addressing the restaurant delivery market when CEO Tony Xu and his co-founders started in…
- UiPath ft. Daniel Dines - From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs · 42 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 4The biggest enterprise software company to come out of Europe in the last decade didn’t come from London, Paris, Berlin or Stockholm—but Bucharest, Romania. UiPath, founded in…
- Reddit ft. Steve Huffman - The Making (and Remaking) of the Front Page of the Internet · 43 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 3Reddit is one of the largest and most culturally influential sites on the internet—and its journey is one of the most unusual company stories in internet history. College…
- MongoDB ft. Dev Ittycheria - How an Early Pivot Catalyzed an Open Source Movement · 44 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 2MongoDB, founded in 2007, originally aimed to create a platform-as-a-service system with a new database layer. Facing competition from Google, the founders pivoted to focus…
- ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred Luddy - From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake · 43 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 1In 2004, bankrupt after the company where he’d previously worked had imploded, Fred Luddy decided to start over as a first-time founder at age 50. His vision was to reinvent the…
- Crucible Moments Season 2: Coming August 29 · 3 minIn Season 1 of Crucible Moments, we heard from founders like PayPal’s Max Levchin, Block’s Jack Dorsey, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and more about the turning points and key decisions…
- Introducing "Training Data," a new podcast from Sequoia about the future of A.I. · 51 minCrucible Moments will be back shortly with season 2. You’ll hear from the founders of YouTube, DoorDash, Reddit, and more. In the meantime, we’d love to introduce you to a new…
- Nvidia ft. Jensen Huang - An overnight success story 30 years in the making · 39 min · Seizoen 1 Aflevering 8CEO Jensen Huang tells the legendary story of Nvidia, from the company’s early days pioneering 3D graphics cards for a niche PC gaming market to powering the AI revolution as the…
