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...The effort to move against Moritz had the backing of Roelof Botha, Sequoia’s current chief, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the dispute....
...This summer, Sequoia’s chief Roelof Botha travelled across New York, Boston, Chicago and California’s Bay Area to meet more than 50 of the firm’s biggest “limited partners”, who invest in its funds....
...The attempt to remove Moritz as chair last week was backed by Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha, according to people with knowledge of the decision, and was “about board composition to set the company...
...When Moritz left Sequoia last year, the firm’s managing partner Roelof Botha told investors that he would “smoothly transition” off boards at Sequoia companies “over time”....
...The VC firm’s current chief Roelof Botha took over in 2022, and has had to navigate a delicate balance between building on past successes while carving out his own legacy, all in a challenging investing...
...Backed by managing partner Roelof Botha, Miller has asked for an extraordinary shareholder meeting to remove Moritz from the board. Other shareholders are sympathetic to the effort....
...Botha, Sequoia Capital’s managing partner.Moritz, a Welsh-born former journalist, has secured lucrative early stakes in some of Silicon Valley’s biggest and fastest-growing companies since joining Sequoia...
...Moritz will from Wednesday focus on Sequoia Heritage, a $15bn wealth-management fund that he helped launch in 2010, according to a letter from Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital’s managing partner, to its investors...
...In September last year, Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia, who is Meeno’s lead investor, tweeted an announcement of his investment, describing the chatbot as a “non-judgmental AI mentor that...
...Moritz “helped establish Sequoia as one of the leading technology investment groups in the world”, Roelof Botha, Sequoia’s managing partner, said at the time....
...The most chaotic year in the venture capital firm’s 51-year history has prompted some investors to ask unprecedented questions of the firm and its direction under chief Roelof Botha, DD’s George Hammond...
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Sequoia Capital boss Roelof Botha lauded the success of the newly separate entities: “When I joined Sequoia in 2003 these businesses [in China and India] did not...
...Roelof Botha, managing partner of Sequoia Capital, said in an interview that a decision to break up was taken in the past few months. “It really was a very complicated decision....
...Roelof Botha, Sequoia’s current leader, played down the operational significance of the exit, noting Moritz “relinquished day-to-day management of Sequoia more than a decade ago”....
...A grandson of Roelof “Pik” Botha, the last foreign secretary under South Africa’s Apartheid regime and later a member of Nelson Mandela’s first government, Botha says he always “felt a burden of expectation...
...Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia who leads its US and European operations, will assume the firm’s leadership in July, taking over from billionaire investor Doug Leone, who will retire aged 65....
...Sequoia in flux Roelof Botha’s reign over the venture capital firm has been marked by bad bets and a regulatory stand-off over its stake in ByteDance, The Information reports....
...Elsewhere on Friday: – How Roelof Botha became one of VC’s most powerful people. – The rise of high-tax Britain. – EU recovery plans: everyone’s a winner. – SpaceX hit by geomagnetic storm....
...I think we have to apply that to ourselves,” said Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia and head of the firm’s US and European business....
...Roelof Botha, one of Sequoia’s highest-ranking partners, said last year the restructuring would mean investments “no longer have ‘expiration dates’”....
...Roelof Botha, a partner who leads its US and European operations, will take over in July from billionaire investor Doug Leone, who retires at 65. 4....
...Roelof Botha will take over in July when the current CEO, Doug Leone, retires. Botha now runs Sequoia’s US and European operations. This is only the third leadership change in the firm’s history....
...Many successful start-ups — such as Apple — compound their strategic advantage over decades, accumulating much of their value post-IPO, Roelof Botha, a Sequoia partner, wrote recently....
...Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia who leads its US and European operations, will assume the firm’s leadership in July taking over from billionaire investor Doug Leone, who will retire aged 65....
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