The VC Factory

Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972.

I recently spoke with a group of family offices and endowments about the questions LPs should ask before investing in a Venture Capital fund.

Mindset-Based Investing is a framework designed to improve decision-making under extreme uncertainty, with the goal of generating outlier Venture Capital performance.

I committed to a VC fund without opening the data room the GP sent me.

I recently joined Myrto Lalacos at The Emerging VC for a masterclass on Emerging VC Fund Math.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, went public on June 12, 2026.

When I first visited Silicon Valley, a decade and a half ago, a prominent VC on Sand Hill Road explained to me why this 40-mile stretch had become so successful: the unprecedented concentration of research, entrepreneurial talent, capital, and potential a…

In 2011, Peter Thiel gave Venture Capital one of its most memorable complaints: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."

Martin Tobias is one of the most focused pre-seed Investors out there.

Investment Committees are where VC firms make their most consequential decisions: make a risky bet on a non-consensus startup or kill a future 100x investment opportunity.

Investment Committee Memos (IC Memos or Deal Memos) are the backbone of Venture Capital decision-making.

Venture Capital is one of the few professions where a gut feeling can be worth billions, but where the same intuition can veto the very outliers that define exceptional careers