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Greg McAdoo, Partner at Sequoia Capital, talks at Startup School 08

Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital
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Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital

 

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  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)

    TAM: Total Addressable Market
    SAM: Serviceable Available Market
    SOM: Share of Market (aka Market Share)

  • Sam Jones (about 1 year ago)

    That was great. 3rd awesome video I've seen today from Startup School.

  • Philip (about 1 year ago)

    oh man, you missed the last part, where he played the video clip of the surfer in motion!

  • Anonymous user (3 months ago)
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    jj

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    @00:00

    heellaomdd

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    @00:00

    ujkiu

  • Anonymous user (5 months ago)
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    .

  • Anonymous user (5 months ago)
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    Empresas sustentables
    No sólo se preocupan por el bienestar de sus empleados y la calidad de sus productos; sino también por el impacto ambi

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    aws

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    wtf

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    f u

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:00

    Why is this video not available????

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
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    Yes

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:01

    t'es qui?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:04

    Que dis-tu?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:05

    апле

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    @00:06

    what

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    @00:12

    jawbone?

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    @00:14

    what an idiot

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    @00:14

    you suck

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:14

    JAWBONE

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:19

    hahahah

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:20

    Tu parles french!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:20

    If you have an idea how to grow a hair again, Sequoia will backup you.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:21

    this slide adds value to my presentation

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:27

    nice curtains

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:29

    come on

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    @00:30

    hi

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    @00:30

    shut the ef up

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    @00:31

    test

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    @00:33

    expensive pullover

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:40

    hard

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:47

    apples are cool

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    @00:49

    shut up

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:52

    and yummy

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:53

    10% of the nasdaq's market cap is from sequoia companies

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @00:56

    we're so awesome i don't even need to tell you how awesome we are

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:00

    oh no wait

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:16

    1000000+ BUZZWORDS

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:24

    777

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:27

    400 Failures

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:42

    Very nice sweater

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:45

    legendary for geogaphic focus

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:46

    LEGEND... wait for it....DARY!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:48

    i was here

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @01:55

    who cares about these notation?

    more like distrction than anything else

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:00

    EPIC

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:10

    Web 2.0

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:13

    whats browntech?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:16

    oil

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:18

    I think it's Indian

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:24

    sh1t

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:32

    browntech = power from burning crap

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:33

    it took 5 partners and 18 meetings for us to coin the phrase browntech. i thought it was a little poopy, but mike moritz overruled me.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @02:52

    Oh wow, look at this compay!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @03:06

    to be fair thats a cool slide

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @03:12

    This was like 5 years ago. They not have color cameras way back then?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @03:22

    oh dear.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @03:31

    ran out of room for bullsh1t here

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @03:58

    'modest outcomes' = fuc.king failures

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:10

    going native?

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    @04:13

    how do yoou download the video?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:15

    Dude, keep your slide's text short... geez

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:27

    Not exactly YC's way....

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:38

    lame

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:38

    Dude.. where's my vc?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:44

    you are lame

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:50

    i am a twat

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:54

    weakass metaphor coming right up

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @04:55

    a shark

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    @04:57

    no, i am a twat

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    @05:00

    yup

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    @05:01

    another one

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @05:04

    SHARK!!!!!!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @05:06

    another shark!!! no wai

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    @05:08

    doing things with hands

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    @05:09

    Dude, noones metioning me I'm Jesus

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    @05:11

    owwwwwwwww stop hitting me

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @05:17

    thanks

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @05:22

    "Hi, I'm a Mac..."

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @05:26

    "...and I'm a PC"

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:19

    Way to "ride" the metaphor into the ground dude...

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:32

    je suis un brand whore.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:43

    What... no more about the wave ?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:47

    I want to hear more about the wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:53

    oh... there's the wave again..

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @06:59

    Total Adressable Market

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:02

    waeveuh

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:03

    some other market ?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:08

    this guy is such BSer..

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:09

    Samwise Gamgee

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:50

    Servable Market?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:53

    Stucture of market?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @07:54

    Slow down boy!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @08:05

    I love puzzles... especially ones without a picture.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @08:30

    Be a litle bit crazy and have a chat with your company at night and see what It communicates to you... And lisen. Make up words..

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    @08:36

    ZzzZZzz....

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    @08:45

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @09:27

    what?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @09:29

    Here is the right side.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @10:30

    I'm kind of a deush.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @10:33

    Twitter

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    @12:02

    G

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    @12:08

    lol

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:23

    you said homo

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:29

    Sequoia Capital Bullshits Bullshitters

  • Anonymous user (10 months ago)
    @12:40

    Good Point

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:44

    i m smart
    I work at sequoia

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:44

    lol

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:47

    or you don't understand how to give a BS free talk

  • mathoda (about 1 year ago)
    @12:51

    he forgot to mention Sequoia's one liner

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:56

    i one liner'd yur mom

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @12:59

    this guys is a dope

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:05

    i know all the answers because I am smart

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:05

    everyone wants to build a dynasty? um no.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:14

    i dont need a dynasty. i'll be happy with 1mil

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:18

    yup

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:18

    im really proud of this slide

  • mathoda (about 1 year ago)
    @13:22

    i think the little guy is easy to see. and sumo rings aren't that big. my bet is on the giant.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:27

    hey that is my cousin.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:31

    wow

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:34

    leverage your ability to iterate rapidly

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @13:53

    Yhoo

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:22

    wow

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:32

    net it out

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:33

    this guy is a wizard with meaningless buzzwords

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:36

    disruptive oppurtunity

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:41

    I want what this guy is on.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:47

    If i have to deal with idiots like him for funding ... i'd better stay home

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:53

    how bored
    i am

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @14:56

    the longer this talk goes

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:04

    i am here

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:11

    I am here

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:20

    ecosystem things

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:27

    internet portal

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:28

    diversify

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:29

    mobile

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:34

    you are causing me pain

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @15:46

    disruptive oppurtunities

  • Anonymous user (11 months ago)
    @15:46

    vvv

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:20

    im in yur base disrupting yur ecosystem things

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:25

    all your base are belong to me

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:31

    sticky

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:33

    so....many...buzzwords.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:39

    subset to accumulate advantage

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:42

    WAVE AGAIN

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:49

    No, not the wave again

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    @16:50

    This is a wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:52

    oh jesus the fraking wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:56

    i want you to walk away from VCs who are full of hot air

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:58

    I am trying to surf down the wave, but I am stuck... man!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @16:59

    surfing metaphor again

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:03

    dude doesn't even surf

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    @17:03

    this is me

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:04

    doesn't surf?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:04

    lets go surfing now, come on lets OSX Safari with me...

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:13

    guy couldn't name a great surfer to save his life

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:16

    In other words only the bad surfers can move the waves in a different direction. I think thats what he means, but I am not all that sure...

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:21

    neither is he

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:23

    Im on top

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:25

    leverage waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:30

    Take away the wave. It's the wave people. The wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:49

    AGAIN!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:49

    AGAIN!

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    @17:52

    Nice wave

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    @17:53

    boooooo

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @17:55

    wow i'm awesome they're clapping for me!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:07

    where is this video?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:16

    validated wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:35

    we use our ecosystem things

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:40

    We leverage waves as a resource to help aid our stuff.

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:42

    im going to move my head around watch this

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:50

    marketing BS

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:50

    oh snap!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:58

    structural advantages

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @18:58

    and ecosystem things

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:04

    You gotta ride the wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:08

    mmmm

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    @19:18

    yipee

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:19

    Focus on waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:24

    thank god

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:26

    the last thing we need is more marketing bs

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:47

    broad

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @19:56

    HOT!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:04

    NOT!!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:17

    if i invest can i star in one of your movies?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:27

    Back to the waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:35

    I'm super high right now

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:36

    high level rideable market waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:37

    fu.k the waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:40

    lol

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:40

    Ride the wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:41

    "figure out the right way to ride it"

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:41

    Riding waves is fun!

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:41

    wtf

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:49

    Wave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @20:54

    Wave goodbye to the waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @21:10

    O - O

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @21:23

    we don't invest in pr0n we just like to look at it

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    @21:39

    They are just made they missed out on PornTube.com

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @22:03

    my geogaphic location is your mom

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @22:11

    test

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    @23:56

    reasonable access to human capital

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @24:13

    123

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:27

    monitzation mobile widgets

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:37

    monetisation

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:40

    widgets

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:43

    waves

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:46

    waterproof mobile for surfers?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:50

    -_-;;

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:56

    understand the complexity of the ecosystem

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @25:59

    lol

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @26:02

    the way to make money is to offer 'payment support'? how about you just charge people for stuff?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @26:34

    social media space

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @26:38

    there isn't a business model around widgets says captain obvious

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @26:47

    how many ppl r still watching? i'm amazed i am

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @26:48

    non advertising monetization of widgets

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @27:05

    the widget space

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @27:08

    revenue waaave

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @27:17

    s

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @27:19

    facebook, myspace, hi5...

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    @28:05

    shut the fook up

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    @28:11

    i like your style.

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    @30:15

    woohoo

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @30:16

    aaaa

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @8947850:00

    does it?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @8947850:00

    does the video work?

  • Anonymous user (about 1 year ago)
    @8947850:00

    is it playin?

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    @8947850:00

    sadsdd

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