Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Pat Grady, a long-time growth investor at Sequoia and one of the firm's senior leaders. Pat has been a part of a long list of legendary investments ranging from Snowflake, Zoom, ServiceNow, Qualtrics, Okta, HubSpot, Notion, and OpenAI among many others. There aren't many investors who reference as well as Pat, both inside and outside of his firm. We talk about investing, building an investing firm and building enduring companies. Please enjoy this great conversation with Pat Grady.
The DNA of Sequoia's Culture
Patrick
Pat, I'm lucky in this conversation and that I know a lot of your partners, have interviewed them, understand the business and I'm fascinated by Sequoia's history and the way that you invest, but I've spent less time on the growth side, and so I'm really excited to do this with you today. I thought a fun place to begin would be to talk about the nature of internal healthy peer pressure at Sequoia, how it's created and maintained in a way that is on that line of healthy and overly intense. I would love to hear as much detail as you can manage about where this internal pressure comes from and how you tend to that flame.