"rolloff we are so excited to have you here today thank you you could say your Silicon Valley story began here at Stanford GSB how does it feel to be back where it all began uh kind of intimidating hon..."

"come to Stanford honestly and as an international student we obviously arrived earlier and so you'd walk around campus it was still quiet uh and it just I had to pinch myself uh to realize that I was ..."

"world stage and he had a book in his Library which was uh called The Who's Who and it was obviously before the internet it was this book maybe had 1500 pages and it listed the names of all the importa..."

"didn't aspire to be the top student when I got to business school but at some point you started to perform well and uh I'll be honest in the last semester when I was starting to work parttime for PayP..."

"so I'll give you a couple of couple of examples uh I remember in first year we did managing in non-market environments and as an immigrant it just baffled me that we had to learn about this when I was..."

"what influence has she had on you well first I should tell a little bit of story you saw some pictures earlier um of that we uh started dating in first year here at the GSB um I think there was a pict..."

"thought partner um you know whether it was helping me with the initial decision uh to join PayPal uh I come to the US with some financial support from McKenzie so I owed them money back uh that paid f..."

"uh the fact that I couldn't find an electric kettle anywhere to boil water to make tea that was another interesting insight about the United States but um there's a lot of challenge um you know immigr..."

"incredibly motivating on the topic of immigrants as you're graduating you receive an offer to join PayPal from another immigrant Elon Musk 18 months later you're taking the company public tell us the ..."

"was the person to show me around the office explain to me how basic things worked I get to the GSB and uh Jeremy's room is opposite mine in schwam we play rugby together uh obviously become good frien..."

"share of rent in April now at that point I borrowed money from uh my former McKenzie Mentor who had helped convince me to come to the GSP I'd borrowed money from hfen uh you know and it was getting em..."

"risk management at the time uh but I was at all the company's board meetings I was involved with fundraising and many of the m&a conversations we had had and then in um this a good piece of advice may..."

"environment I guess a question that I have is for a lot of a second year NBA students were're in the same boat we're thinking about what that next job is going to look like how would you think about t..."

"you're going to have a lot more fun the next fork in your road is when eBay acquires PayPal and Whitman actually makes you an offer to join you turn that down or to stay to stay to stay and you turn t..."

"situation and so like I said earlier I had my you know the lifeline call boyfriend are you sure we can do this and we made that decision so at seoa you've crossed path with some incredible Founders Br..."

"those are important by the way increasingly we're seeing GSB Founders so what you didn't mention you know we invested in a company called medalia that was the class of 99 we invested in Trulia uh new ..."

"interviewed at seoa and I didn't interview at any other Venture firm by the way you know at least when I was at the GSP um most of the Venture investors who came by seemed like they were you know Mast..."

"that kept them going and so you I think it's just a very important attribute like what really motivates you and at least for us as well the clients we serve and it may not be obvious to you um Stanfor..."

"and now head of the most iconic Venture Capital firm has ruoff boa ever failed of course no jeez um I there are 15 times I've made an investment recommendation at sequ in my 21 22 years there 15 times..."

"joined sea because he was worried that I wouldn't have the the fortitude to deal with the adversity of being in our business because the truth is over sequoia's history of over 50 years about half the..."

"something special or exceptional well your ability to push yourself is part of the reason the F firm and your predecessors each of whom has actually spoken of you from the top picked you to lead the f..."

"third party so it's a private partnership to to the limit of the law in perpetuity and so no generation can sell a piece of sequa and profit at the expense of those who came before or those who come a..."

"gone speaking of stewardship you have been a major Patron a Stanford University I think each of us in the room has probably benefited from you in some way we because that's wife and I have jointly don..."

"students to Pur an entrepreneurial dream uh I spoke to one of the professors here a couple of weeks ago talks about the the missing Einstein this phenomenon that there's some people who don't do inter..."

"little bit on what it means to be at the top who are folks you look to for advice or mentors that you look at when you're trying to make a tough decision well firstly the at the top um I'm not at the ..."

"about that uh in terms of mentors um to many there've been many along the way you know and I'm sure many of you have had incredible mentors you know that high school teacher who believed in you who ga..."

"the other wonderful thing at sequa is we have a a real focus on intergenerational transfer so Doug Leone was most recently the steward of sequa while Doug isn't part of the new funds we launched he co..."

"very quickly so with these ones I me the decision for Global separation was a one-way door decision there was no way we can come back two or three years later and say oops sorry we got that one wrong ..."

"arrive at that decision months um and then similarly with the sequ capital fund it was an you know it started as an idea and then you float the idea by somebody else no that's not going to work you th..."

"have on the lives of others and finding purpose in your life and so the favorite book I hand out to our Founders is Man's Search for meaning by Victor Frankle and this idea that you need to find what ..."

"can all live by as well I want to open it up now to audience question answers so if you can just put your hand up our mic Runners and vft team will come to you please just state your name and your yea..."

"about important decisions Henry MBA 1 uh I'm also international student so I was wondering if you can talk more about uh the split of squer into like China India and that implications about what peopl..."

"out better solutions to these problems okay hi Rola uh hope here fellow South African so it's great to have you here I recognize the aent I'm curious um if you keep track of the African Venture Capita..."

"world so I look forward to that hi um I'm Chloe I'm an mba1 I used to work at Thousand eyes and most Rec and uh ethos as well um since my time working at ethos I'd love to know what advice you have fo..."

"you'll keep going so that's one of the first things and then uh Elon was actually a base camp event a sequ Founder event two years ago and he talked about something very simple actually which is build..."

"foremost the last thing I'll say is you've got to realize that um being entrepreneurial is not synonymous with being a Founder so I would I haven't been a Founder I never started a company but I've ha..."

"much fun to build I mean that's part of the beauty of Entrepreneurship is you're building something that didn't exist before and for many of you who want to do something of consequence in your life ri..."

"realize in your shoes it may seem intimidating it may seem daunting what what are what's going to happen to all these different types of jobs think about graduating when we did in 2000 two months afte..."

"mean the the models we built in 2000 at PayPal the initial models that scored every single transaction on PayPal the the fundamental conceptual design of that taking data and decisions gave you enough..."

"can build successful businesses so we have a tradition here at view from the top of ending each interview with a set of Rapid Fire questions I'm going to throw out a question and you're going to tell ..."