Hints and tips:
...On Wednesday, Sequoia told its limited partners that Moritz was stepping down after a career spanning four decades....
...Instacart’s prospectus describes Sequoia Capital and D1 Capital Partners as “significant stockholders.”...
...The FT and its research partner Statista are launching a project to identify the best companies to work for around the world....
...That will put it in direct competition with Peak XV Partners, the company that was until the split known as Sequoia India & Southeast Asia....
...It’s no coincidence that the S&P 500 is also having a stellar run....
...industry, including Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive, and Alfred Lin, a partner at venture capital firm Sequoia....
...He was most recently a partner and senior managing director at Certares....
...Catterton partner focused on impact investing you might expect some fur to fly....
...Blackstone in September became the first private equity group to be included in the S&P 500 index and its rivals Apollo Global and KKR are hoping they are not far behind....
...As Lex notes, Tapestry’s dealmaking record isn’t great and analysts at S&P cut the company’s outlook to negative on the deal....
...Led by a handful of technology stocks, the S&P 500 last week returned to bull market territory, defined as a rise of 20 per cent or more from the most recent low, which was hit last October....
...Plot the S&P 500 index return against the Nikkei 225 from just before the pandemic....
...Like so many companies that jumped on the Spac bandwagon in the boom times, Babylon couldn’t always turn its technology into profits....
...“How can we double down on what we’re doing with . . . technology? How can we build out our footprint globally at this time?”...
...Klarna is chaired by Sir Michael Moritz, partner at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, which has just updated its advice for start-ups facing a bleaker future....
...Kirkland & Ellis London M&A partner Tom McCarthy is joining the legal team of private equity firm Triton Partners....
...They might be willing to endure quite a few lean years in terms of their own P&L — and even to think about cutting their own costs and headcount — rather than take risks with deals that need stretched assumptions...
...Some managed to outspend household names like Reliance Industries, Procter & Gamble, Google, Mondelez, ITC, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and L’Oréal....
...Since he revealed his stake in Twitter, shares in the electric carmaker have plunged 25 per cent compared to a 10 per cent fall in the benchmark S&P 500....
...Fintech valuations have had a steeper decline than any other technology sector, according to a recent report by Andreessen Horowitz partners, which cited data from Capital IQ....
...Now most S&P 500 companies are run with ruthless efficiency, making leveraged buyouts harder for KKR to pencil out....
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...And our major investors are Accel partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator and Wing VC . . ....
...“Their P&L tend to be more stable than now in the past,” he added....
...For China-focused general partners and their limited partners, it’s been a great run....
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