Roelof Botha
South African-American venture capitalist, former Sequoia partner and PayPal CFO
South African-American venture capitalist, former Sequoia partner and PayPal CFO
Every podcast episode featuring Roelof Botha that Attunex has found: 57 interviews and appearances across 25 shows between 2012 and 2026. Most often on Crucible Moments (25), The Hill & Valley Forum Podcast (5) and Training Data (3). Often in conversation with Jacob Helberg, Erik Torenberg and Sonya Huang. Follow Roelof in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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In 2007, Fortune magazine photographed a group of former PayPal employees in pinstripe suits around a restaurant table, styled like movie gangsters. The image crowned them the PayPal Mafia. The name…
28 Junie 2026: Dr. Roelof Botha, ’n ekonoom, praat oor die uitdagings vir Suid-Afrika se ekonomie, en oor sy seun, Roelof Botha jnr, wat op 16 Junie vanjaar op die SpaceX-raad aangestel is.
SpaceX adds former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha to its board days after the largest IPO ever. But the real shift is in governance maturity—what it means for investors.
Welcome to episode number eleven of our series called “1 O 1 VENTURE CAPITAL CORE PRINCIPLES FOR NEW LPs, WILLING TO UNDERSTAND HOW VENTURE CAPITAL REALLY WORKS”… Let’s dig in. First, number 41. The…
Jack Dorsey and Sequoia's Roelof Botha published a sweeping essay arguing that AI can replace the information-routing function of hierarchy itself — and Block is betting the company on it. Today we…
Jack Dorsey (Block CEO) and Roelof Botha (Sequoia partner and Block board member) join to discuss a bold claim they wrote about recently: the traditional corporate hierarchy isn't just inefficient —…
In the early 2000s, the cybersecurity industry was dominated by incumbents focused on high margins, not innovation. Nir Zuk tells the story of how, frustrated by this stagnant culture, he set out on…
At 19, Markus Villig borrowed €5,000 from his parents to fix Estonia's broken taxi system. What happened next defied every conventional startup playbook. Markus started by making fleet dispatch…
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Founder and CEO Ilkka Paananen set out to create a different kind of game company—one where the game development teams would have decision-making power, not upper management. Ilkka recalls the early…
This week on The Learning Corner, Mia and Charles break down four of the most thought-provoking reads shaping the tech and venture ecosystem right now: • Unsafe SAFEs in the Age of AI: Jason Lemkin…
Register for Founder University Japan's kickoff! https://luma.com/cm0x90mk Today's show: *On TWiST, Jason welcomes an all-star VC panel — Deedy Das of Menlo Partners and Jay Eum of GFT Ventures — for…
In this episode recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, talks with Roelof Botha about Sequoia’s approach to finding and backing outlier companies — just…
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Today's podcast covers: OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan free for one year to users in India who sign up during a limited promotional period starting November 4. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025,…
In 2014, Keller Cliffton made an audacious pivot: shut down his robotic toy company and rebuild it as an autonomous drone delivery system for life-saving medical supplies. Investors were skeptical:…
Deel's growth overshadows SpyGate, Claude learned new skills, and the great "momentum is moat" debate | EXXX Today's show: *Deel's growing fast enough that investors are overlooking the espionage…
Previously on Crucible Moments, we explored the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant names in technology. Now, we're returning for a brand new season. Join us as leaders from…
Roelof Botha joined Sequoia in 2003 and serves as the managing partner and steward. Roelof led early investments in YouTube, Instagram, Natera, and MongoDB among others. He currently sits on the…
(0:00) Introducing Roelof Botha (1:08) Sequoia's Scout program and its best-performing funds ever (3:38) State of Venture Capital: Why it's broken, too much capital, not enough great companies (9:01)…
Have your own questions? Continue the conversation with Roelof's Delphi: https://www.delphi.ai/roelofbotha Create your own digital mind: https://studio.delphi.ai/identity Sequoia Managing Partner…
Have your own questions? Continue the conversation with Roelof's Delphi: https://www.delphi.ai/roelofbotha Create your own digital mind: https://studio.delphi.ai/identity Sequoia Managing Partner…
As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, with engineers saving 8-10 hours a week through AI automation. Block’s open-source agent goose connects to…
Eric Ho is building Goodfire to solve one of AI’s most critical challenges: understanding what’s actually happening inside neural networks. His team is developing techniques to understand, audit and…
Sequoia Capital is synonymous with outstanding performance, backing companies like Apple, Google, Airbnb, and Stripe. In today’s episode, I chat with Roelof Botha, Sequoia’s Managing Partner, about…
Dive into TechCrunch's new cybersecurity glossary, Slate Auto's transformative EV plans, and Musk's ambitious funding round for xAI. Discover how AWS faces AI challenges, Netflix's sports streaming…
In a candid conversation with Kailash Sundaram, MBA ’25, Roelof Botha, MBA ’00 — leader of one of the most influential venture capital firms in the world — reflects on his journey from South Africa…
Some of the most dangerous technocrats in America came out of the same company back in the early 2000s, and after a photoshoot imitating a large Mafia family, the legend of the PayPal Mafia was born.…
This week, Angela and Sally wonder if Amazon will ruin the Bond franchise, Helen confesses she could fall in love with Claude, and we all weigh in on Roelof Botha’s provocative SPV take. Our big…
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When Nubank started 10 years ago, a few big banks in Brazil had a stranglehold on the largest economy in Latin America: they controlled nearly all the market share, and imposed some of the highest…
A scrappy upstart taking on hyperscalers in a category with lots of hand-wavers, Dropbox became the canonical example of Silicon Valley viral growth, adding 50 million users in the first years…
Millions of Americans use their smartphones to invest and manage their finances every day—but before Robinhood started in 2013, finance looked very different. Investing was something for the wealthy,…
This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot that succeeded against all odds. When cofounders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim left…
Founder Matthew Rabinowitz opens up about the intensely personal journey that set him on a course to revolutionizing healthcare. A PhD in electrical engineering, he had no background in genetics or…
DoorDash faced skeptics from the start. Grubhub, Delivery.com, and others were already addressing the restaurant delivery market when CEO Tony Xu and his co-founders started in 2013. But after…
The biggest enterprise software company to come out of Europe in the last decade didn’t come from London, Paris, Berlin or Stockholm—but Bucharest, Romania. UiPath, founded in 2005 and originally…
Reddit is one of the largest and most culturally influential sites on the internet—and its journey is one of the most unusual company stories in internet history. College roommates Steve Huffman and…
Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha, one of Silicon Valley’s most highly respected investors, discusses his career, Sequoia’s unique culture and investment processes, and how he finds and builds enduring…
MongoDB, founded in 2007, originally aimed to create a platform-as-a-service system with a new database layer. Facing competition from Google, the founders pivoted to focus solely on their database…
On Training Data, we learn from innovators pushing forward the frontier of AI’s capabilities. Today we’re bringing you something different. It’s the story of a company currently implementing AI at…
In 2004, bankrupt after the company where he’d previously worked had imploded, Fred Luddy decided to start over as a first-time founder at age 50. His vision was to reinvent the nascent IT software…
In Season 1 of Crucible Moments, we heard from founders like PayPal’s Max Levchin, Block’s Jack Dorsey, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and more about the turning points and key decisions that shaped their…
Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, an early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to founding A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a publicly traded company, and served as the CEO for the…
Pat Grady is one of the most successful growth investors of the last decade. As the Head of Sequoia's growth investing practice, Pat has invested in companies with a combined market cap exceeding…
In this episode, Erik Torenberg sits down with Sequoia Capital Managing Partner Roelof Botha and Jacob Helberg, author, Palantir advisor, and founder of the Hill and Valley Conference. They delve…
Erik Torenberg interviews Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, and Jacob Helberg, advisor to Palantir CEO and organizer of The Hill & Valley Forum. Roelof and Jacob discuss the need…
Sequoia Managing Partner Roelof Botha, Senator Linsey Graham, and Daniel Gross, the former Head of AI at Apple and Co-Founder of Andromeda discuss the future of dual-use AI. Global trade as a…
Speaker Mike Johnson emphasizes the critical importance of maintaining U.S. leadership in AI, expressing concerns over potential Chinese dominance and the misuse of AI technologies against American…
House Representative Jay Obernolte (R-CA) discusses pivoting from his background in computer science to entering congress, where he now leads the House AI Task force. Tasked with creating a…
House Republican Elise Stefanik discusses the importance of AI in national security, acknowledges Palantir's support for Israel, and outlines the U.S.'s efforts to maintain technical superiority. She…
After leaving PayPal, Roelof Botha went on to help Sequoia nurture some of the world’s most influential tech companies, including YouTube, Instagram, and Square. Sequoia has been an investor in the…
Roelof Botha is the Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital and he led early investments in iconic companies like YouTube, Instagram, 23&Me, MongoDB and more. In this episode he gives career and life…
Roelof Botha is the Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital and he led early investments in iconic companies like YouTube, Instagram, 23&Me, MongoDB and more. In this episode he gives career and life…
George Michelakis is the Chief Investment Officer of Gladstone Management, a $2 billion long/short equity hedge fund based in London. George founded Gladstone in 2006 with seed capital from, well me…
CEO Jensen Huang tells the legendary story of Nvidia, from the company’s early days pioneering 3D graphics cards for a niche PC gaming market to powering the AI revolution as the sixth most valuable…
Millions of customers have explored their genome with 23andMe. But when the company started in 2006, the idea of consumer DNA testing was heresy to the medical establishment. The FDA once even…
Co-founders Hosain Rahman and Alex Asseily, and Chief Creative Officer Yves Behar, recount the meteoric rise and fall of Jawbone. One of the most innovative companies of the mid 2000s, Jawbone…
Founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah reveal how they took a blog started as a hobby and turned the ideas behind it into a $20+ billion success. In 2006, HubSpot upended traditional approaches to…
What happens to an events company when every event is canceled? “Even if you have spent 14 years building something, it could truly be gone in 14 days.” After working tirelessly to revolutionize how…
Some of the most dangerous technocrats in America came out of the same company back in the early 2000s, and after a photoshoot imitating a large Mafia family, the legend of the PayPal Mafia was born.…
CEO Jack Dorsey reflects on Block’s origins and defining moments with host Roelof Botha. Dorsey founded Square in 2009 with a clear vision: economic empowerment for all. Their dongle that turns…
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As Airbnb took off in the early 2010s, Brian Chesky remembers worrying, “this is just one accident away from being a dead idea.” That accident finally came in 2011 when a host’s apartment was…
PayPal was the defining tech company of its generation, with alumni going on to start YouTube, Tesla, Yelp, LinkedIn, among many others. But the company nearly didn’t make it. The PayPal of today…
A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most important companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory. Hear from founders like Jack…
Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s largest and most successful VC firms, told investors today it will split into three partnerships, separating its China and India units. It’s been a tough first…
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First, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from Acquired join Jason to talk portfolio construction (13:41), Roelof Botha succeeding Doug Leone at Sequoia (30:58), and to debate the takeaway from Fast's…
Luciana Lixandru is a Partner @ Sequoia, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture firms with Sequoia-backed companies accounting for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value. As for…
Our anchors begin today’s show looking at stocks sinking lower to start the day with CNBC’s Mike Santoli, and Sequoia Capital Partner Roelof Botha sits down for an exclusive interview as the firm…
My guest today is Roelof Botha, a partner at one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture firms, Sequoia Capital. A few days ago before I sat down with Roelof, he announced Sequoia’s boldest…
As we wrap up 2022, we’ve looked back at firstminute capital’s first podcast “My firstminute” from 2020 and 2021. My firstminute talked to some of the world’s top investors, founders and…
David Helgason is the Founder @ Unity, the company that gives content creators the tools to create innovative RT3D experiences and deliver better processes for almost every industry. Prior to their…
Roleof Botha is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital, one of the world's leading venture firms with a portfolio including the likes of Airbnb, Instacart, Stripe, UiPath, Zoom, the list goes on. As for Roelof,…
The current decline of Growth Domestic Product (GDP) is at 17.1% instead of the 51% proclaimed by Stats SA. That's according to an economist, Dr. Roelof Botha, who is an economic advisor at Optimum…
On March 5th 2020, Sequoia Capital published a Medium post entitled ‘Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020’. The memo minces no words, admonishing founders & CEOs to “question every assumption about…
Paypal Mafyası | #59 - 26.11.2019 Bilal Eren ve Cem Sünbül ile dijitalleşmenin hayatımıza etkilerini her salı 22.00’da bir başka konuyla ele alan DijitalHayatTV YouTube/Facebook/Periscope yayınımızda…
https://twitter.com/roelofbotha/status/1196234200665346048?s=20 Roelof Botha, A venture capitalist, a former CFO of Paypal, and all-around majorly successful businessman, the type Bank of America…
Editor’s note: James Buckhouse is design partner at Sequoia. Last Tuesday, the teams competing in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, as well as founders chosen as Top Picks in Startup Alley, visited…
Dr Roelof Botha, Economic Advisor to Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) says free education is not feasible. This after the public hearings which held in Pretoria over the exorbitant fees ....
This special presentation features a panel of Stanford alumni reflecting on their personal entrepreneurial experiences at Stanford and in the vibrant Silicon Valley ecosystem. This conversation…