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Aakash Kapoor’s Tweets

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Sep 28, 2018

“We are not the best team by all metrics. 30% possession. 80% pass accuracy (vs 95% standard). But we are the most disciplined, the best organised. This gave us the best defence” - 🇮🇸coach @Sequoia_India Lesson: Identify your core and keep compounding it. Don’t worry about rest

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Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

Nov 9

Serendipity can be manufactured

Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

Sep 15

Grudges have no place in the present or future, and they were never in the past. There is no reason to have a nail in your heart that no one even knows. It’s very stupid kind of personal suffering, don’t let it chip away a little happiness every time. Let go!

Aug 31

Perfect example of passionate founders building to solve problems they themselves have lived through. Go

team!

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Thrilled to announce @recruitwithkula's seed funding round of $12M, led by @SequoiaIndiaSEA and @SquarePegCap Here's brief thread on the Why and What of Kula:

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Felix Lee

@felixleezd

Aug 12

Sequoia's Surge founders dinner and welcoming the new

cohort 07. Proud to be a part of this community ✨ finally catching up in person! cc

Feeding Fish, Feeding Generations

Gibran Huzaifah

@gibranhuzaifah

Jul 12

Really love this profile video from

@Temasek

about

@efishery_ai

: "Feeding Fish, Feeding Generations". This captures the essence of eFishery; supporting farmers to solve hunger problems. One pond at a time. Salam satu kolam!

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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. But what if, with the help of technology, we can achieve much more? Learn how we’re investing in solutio...

Jun 23

Just as founders are iterating on their products, we are constantly thinking (and re-thinking) what we can do to make our ‘product’ better for our ‘users’. Here’s the latest iteration

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We’re raising the ceiling and removing the floor on Surge. No longer $1-2M. If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you! surgeahead.com/surge-extends- Thread

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VivekRamachandran.eth

@vivekramac

Jun 17

Great meeting

great discussions on web3 security and the future. He has this unique ability to supercharge you - I always leave 10x excited after meeting him.

Jun 15

This co in the tweet in 2019 was

@flip_id

after our seed inv. Welcome Tencent, Square on the mission

@ariarriyan

set out for: "fair financial services for Indonesia". Also

@gokulr

as angel (he's been in for a while!) @Sequoia_India

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Picture taken at a fintech #startup office. #Founder says these are all the statements banks send us every month. We never open them but keep them here for inspiration - this reminds us what we don’t want to become. And it motivates team that our competition isn’t hard to beat

Jun 15

Fun group chat w/ founders of two

seed stage companies Founder A: what do you think will get us the next round in these times Founder B *after a long pause*: …product-market fit Period. That’s what seed stage founders shd care about in ANY market. Isn’t it :)

Jun 14

50 years globally, 16 in India, 10 in SEA. And now we are committing the next decade and beyond - to build with founders and for founders. @Sequoia_India

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Jun 14

1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region. sequoiacap.com/india/article/

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Heartened to see how

are making a REAL, big dent for fish farmers in Indonesia. Q translation- 4x income for farmer on the left, 2 of the other man’s kids studying in a premier engineering school

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Gibran Huzaifah

@gibranhuzaifah

Jun 13

Pak Rusli (kiri), kolamnya bertambah dari 3 jadi 12 dalam 6 bulan bergabung @efishery_ai. 4 kali lipat income naik. Pak Ganda (kanan), 7 tahun jadi bagian eFishery, dua anaknya kuliah ITB. Dia nya buta huruf. Tech bisa bantu reduce inequalities kok. Asal solve the right problem.

May 26

tech founder/ VC perspective, for this and only this: offline > online

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Here’s a sneak peek of #Surge06 in Bangkok, where many #founders met in person for the first time after months on Zoom together! They had an absolute blast connecting with and learning from each other. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have shared this experience with them.

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Shawn Lin

@shawnlinnn

Proud to be partnered with @Sequoia_India , and to have a unified vision in building an amazing user-generated #Metaverse experience! Looking forward to working with

. We are honored to be a part of the @Sequoia_India family. The best is yet to come! Let's build!🚀

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(1/2) Social gaming is an amazing neighbourhood - Roblox is $2B+ revenue, $600M+ OCF. Things have evolved over years though - 1) users are now creators & vice-versa, 2) local is more contextual vs global, 3) #Web3 democratising digital ownership. That leaves space for disruption twitter.com/SequoiaIndiaSE…

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(2/2) We believe the next generation metaverse will be creator centric as

@budcreate

is!

@risafeng

and

@shawnxlin

are charting that path w/ incredible passion, creativity and ambition. Super psyched to have the chance to see them create from here on! @Sequoia_India

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. @aakash_kpr & Shenya Wang write about why we’re psyched to partner with @risafeng, @shawnxlin_ & the team building @budcreate, a #UGC #metaverse platform designed to unleash the creativity of #GenAlpha & #GenZ with easy-to-use #NoCode tools! india.sequoiacap.com/build/bud-turn

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Sridhar Vembu

@svembu

May 20

Happiness comes from gratitude for what we have. Sorrow comes from how much we feel we lack.

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Mable Jiang

@Mable_Jiang

May 7

0/ Hey guys, here is a personal update: Yesterday was my last day at Multicoin. I’m leaving the firm to join

@Stepnofficial

as the Chief Revenue Officer. It is a big turning point of my career, and it took me a lot of deep thinking in the decision-making process.

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Corporate Governance: The Cornerstone of an Enduring Company

Apr 17

The startup ecosystem needs guardrails so that a few errant founders don’t create setbacks for all. We want to build companies that endure, and that can only happen if governance is strong. Hope more people join us on this pledge to greater governance.

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The startup ecosystem needs guardrails so that a few errant founders don’t create big setbacks for all. We want to build companies that are enduring, and that can only happen if governance is strong....

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Underlining general problem solvers who *break rules*

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Heet Tike

@HeetTike

5. when you're an early founder: focus on talent that can drive disproportionate outcomes for you. having a high talent density of insane problem solvers will become your biggest delta. you need general problem solvers who like to break rules.

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STEPN | Public Beta Phase V

Someone’s running with a tablet…wonder if a Zoom meeting is on! no excuse to getting fit whatsoever

@Stepnofficial

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@Stepnofficial

When you are

, there are 30,000+ people

with you, not in the #Metaverse, but in the #Reality.

Shailendra J Singh

@singh_sequoia

Mar 25

Heartiest congratulations to the team at GoTo on $1.1B IPO in Indonesia Huge honor for @Sequoia_India and me to be part of the journey of both Gojek and Tokopedia since the early days 🙏🙏🙏

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Yoolim Lee

@yoolimleenews

Mar 25

GoTo raised about $1.1 billion after pricing the deal at the middle of its price range, sources say. bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via @technology

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Prukalpa

@prukalpa

Mar 9

We have BIG NEWS to share:

@AtlanHQ

raised a $50M Series B led by

@insightpartners

@SalesforceVC

, and @Sequoia_India. 🥁🥁🥁 We decided to keep this one real... so here’s exactly how we announced the news internally and our team’s reaction to it. 💙

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

Mar 8

fundraising is all fine and dandy, but two different

cos that we backed pre-launch reported bookings of 100k USD+ for the month of feb with strong continuing acceleration and line of sight to a 1M/month. PMF just hits different ;)

Feb 26

Taste and iterate and taste and iterate -

@hangryid

’s

@hungrybram

chats with @sequoia_india’s

about what it takes to make a winning fried chicken recipe and how he’s setting Hangry apart from the competition. Tune in for your weekend listen: bit.ly/3BSOpdB

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Wow

🙌 The process and journey of taking a chance on motivated individuals — and then fighting alongside them — is so fulfilling and addictive! In fact, the end result is just a bonus if anything at all (plus I’m sure you’ll help him land well nevertheless). Exciting!

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Abhimanyu Saxena

@asxna

Feb 22

Spoke to very well exposed parents (founders of an ERP company), who were very insistent on enrolling their 16 YO son to Scaler. Our admission team had said no earlier because its a program for working professionals.

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Feb 21

"Ye app nahi, andolan hai!" (It's not an app, it's a revolution!) Releasing tomorrow, #SheBuilds Ep 1 captures

@nyAnimall

@KirtiAnimall

's incredible story of creating a digital revolution in India's cattle mkt with Animall. #SequoiaSpark

@NatGeoIndia

@guneetm

@SacredInsanity

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Feb 14

‘Decision making’ should be taught as a subject starting from high school. One can never master this art but the earlier you become a student of it, the better. Everything in professional and personal life depends on the decisions we make, and oh boy, do decisions compound fast

Feb 13

That’s because it doesn’t feel like work when you do what you love

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Shailendra J Singh

@singh_sequoia

Feb 13

just got off a founder call w @RajanAnandan @P_Kemps @aakash_kpr & others founder: is it normal that many of you get on a call on sunday night? me: as a founder, are you always willing to do what it takes for your startup? why do you think we wont do the same? @Sequoia_India

Feb 13

Early team members are special. They are passionate (may even complain a bit). But they feel the customer & wld deliver highest NPS. In scale-up pursuit, don’t lose them or cage them. Infact separate thm from the new ‘rockstar’ & org process so they don’t lose their fire

Feb 7

Long on crypto x gaming

@GalaxyFight_NFT

@alyssamaharani

@Sequoia_India

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Galaxy Fight Club

@GalaxyFight_NFT

Feb 1

We are happy to announce we just closed $7 million in a seed and private sale led by Animoca Brands, Sequoia Capital and The Chernin Group to build a truly open ecosystem with interoperability of digital items where the players, instead of the company, own their IP. (1/8)

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[Funding alert] Crypto investment startup Flint raises $5.1M seed capital led by Sequoia, GFC

Jan 25

On a mission to make #crypto accessible to the masses,

@flintdotmoney

, with their easy-to-use investment products is unlocking the massive opportunity that #web3 has to offer. Check out our newest partnership in web3👇🤩

@anshuagrawal_

@AkshitBordia

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Crypto investment startup Flint said it aims to accelerate bringing early users on board, enhance the product based on early feedback, and hire for senior positions across engineering, design, and...

!! Excited to back the incredible opportunity in consumer x web3, but even more thrilled to back you and your passion for building

. @Sequoia_India

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Thrilled and humbled to announce that Flint (@flintdotmoney) has raised $5.1 Million in our seed round from some of the biggest backers across the globe - led by @Sequoia_India and GFC (@Global_Founders), with participation from @coinbase Ventures, @hashed_official and more.

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Stunning. Innovation and wealth creation flywheel is spinning. And it’s spinning fast. Just imagine how much entrepreneurship and consumption this will fuel in the next decade - future is veryyyyy bright

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Harsh Upadhyay

@upadhyay_harsh1

CRED surpasses Byju's, Ola and Swiggy in terms of ESOP pool size Top companies by ESOP pool

Flipkart: $2.26 Bn Oyo: $1 Bn Zomato: $750 Mn Paytm: $610 Mn Nykaa: $570 Mn PolicyBazaar: $515 Mn CRED: $500 Mn

In non-listed companies, CRED is only behind Flipkart and Oyo

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Its a massive privilege AND above all lots of fun building with

@KrishnanMenon17

We are tripling down, and committing the NEXT *decade & beyond* to build

@LummoSHOPid

(Bukukas) @Sequoia_India

@LPeracchione

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Excited to deepen our partnership with @KrishnanMenon17, @LPeracchione & team @LummoSHOPid (formerly Bukukas), which is enabling Indonesian entrepreneurs & brands to unlock & maximise their business potential through online commerce.

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Frank Slootman Is No Snowflake

“On the road of life there are passengers and drivers. Drivers wanted” sequoiacap.com/article/frank-

@sequoia

sequoiacap.com

Snowflake’s CEO led one of the biggest IPOs of 2020. He has a message for founders hoping to do the same: You still don’t know how to focus.

Jan 18

secure managers build love & cred, earning the right to be leaders. insecure ones remain managers, until a secure leader takes over btw it's possible to shed insecurity..by being overly generous. counter-intuitive. but try it. give credit, elevate others. you'll feel secure aft

Jan 14

My dad has joined telegram and created a family group - unprompted. I think he is going to pitch a Web3 idea soon… ;)

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short term paranoia, long term optimism!

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Tejeshwi Sharma

@tejeshwi_sharma

Jan 14

Impatience in a short-term and Patience in a long-term are both virtues.

Augustus (Augie) Ilag

@AugieIlag

Jan 12

Finally announcing this one! Stoked to be partnering with

@zenzhenyu

and

@bluzuli

building the future of Web 3 auth 🚀