greg mcadoo at y combinator's stanford startup school
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SEQUOIA CAPITAL CONFIDENTIAL 2
Start an Inferno with a MatchStanford Startup School
They Didn’t Need a Lot of Money to Start (<$2M)
…But Got Fairly Big
$264 M
~$ 500,000M
Not Only Great P&Ls, Great Companies
Steve Wozniak & Steve JobsApple
Trip HawkinsElectronic Arts
Sandy Lerner & Len BosackCisco
Jerry Yang & David FiloYahoo
Larry Page & Sergey BrinGoogle
Max Levchin& Peter ThielPayPal
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed KarimYouTube
Jen-Hsun HuangnVidia
Alfred Lin & Tony HsiehZappos
Trevor Healy & Daniel MattesJajah
Omar HamouiAdMob
Steve StreitGreen Dot
Its Not About Being Small
They Thought Differently . . . They Had To
They Didn’t Throw Money at Problems
They Were More Clever
They Built Simple Easy-to-Use Products
They Were More Focused
They Rang the Cash Register Early
They Stayed Close to the Customer
They Moved with Greater Agility
Its Not Just About Being Small
Its About Doing More With Less
Achates Power
Dave Johnson
Diesel engine systems
Ship Something Early
Steve & Steve Sandy & Len Larry & Sergey
Put a Price on it
AirBnB
Brian CheskyJoe GrebbiaNathanBlecharczyk
Peer-to-peer travel network
We Love Ramen Profitable
Cheap PCs
Free Software
Low Cost Infrastructures
User Generated Content
Viral Distribution
mcadoo@sequoiacap.com
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