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Sir Michael Moritz

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  1. “He helped they already had native talent, but he then helped form them, helped mold them, helped them improve. And in return, got repaid not just with great performances.”

    2015-11-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “That's right. Manchester United is one of these soccer clubs that had a great reputation and then went through a fallow period of almost 20 years before he arrived”

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  3. “And Christiana Ronaldo and a whole bunch of Not then teenagers boys who were in their teens and he developed them in six. When he got there was an”

    2015-11-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “It's very similar, although in the venture business or in the investment business, you have One huge advantage which is when your legs don't carry you as quickly as they used to you can keep on playing. And that's tough to do obviously in the world of World of soccer, but the similarities, at least for us, are really great, which is we've always had a A great fondness for finding people that we bring to Sequoia when they're still pretty young, which he did at United Beckham.”

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  5. “Before you build Precisely right, which is exactly how he would put it. And I think that the way that you have consistently good or great investments is to have a very solid organization, in our case a very solid partnership and solid team. That you can develop over a long period of time and that then also produces consistently.”

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  6. “The thing that he always focused on, and it's what we've tried to do at Sequoia as well, is united. He felt that you before he had great performance on the football field, the soccer field, you had to have a very solid organization. And it had to be really developed and you couldn't just hope to cobble together a team that would give you a result on a Saturday afternoon. You had to build the organization. So this is a great question.”

    2015-11-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “But each of these books, whether it's this one or the current one leading or the previous book about apple or Chrysler, each of them were books about an organization headed by a very strong individual. Right.”

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  8. “Hor Yes, but it was Sequoia's been around since the early nineteen seventies. And I also... felt the united Aunt Salex exemplified and stood for a lot of the things that we hold dear. And so that was the reason. So how did you get in touch with them?”

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  9. “Writing this book with Sir Alex was in a way, writing a book about Sequoia without writing about Sequoia. Right, right, right. Because there's other things.”

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  10. “No, Don Valentine, that's right. I joined it in 1986, and we were still pretty small then. Right. And it was really before Silicon Valley became the force in the economy that it's become today. And people had been, you know, a few people had been suggesting I write about Sequoia and I didn't want to do that for a variety of reasons.”

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  11. “because of its really wonderful performance under this legendary manager, as they call the coaches in Britain. Sir Alex Ferguson, and began to wonder how any organization could keep up such a consistent winning streak over four different decades, because obviously that had great relevance for Sequoia itself, as we thought about building and went about building a development. Sequoia capital where you are”

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  12. “I had grown up as you mentioned in Wales, and like all boys of my generation, Majesty Knighted had always occupied a special place in our firmament. And over the years Kept up with the club and then followed it, began to follow it more avidly in the last ten, fifteen years Network television started broadcasting in the Premier League games and got curious about the club”

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