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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by smakz on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:20PM (#331392)
Just curious, can you think of another company besides Amazon where 'get big fast' actually worked?

"Get big fast" was actually a rather symbolic phrase for the excesses of bubble spending. It worked for amazon and few others.

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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by mixmax on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:25PM (#331402)
I'm not on firm ground here, but I would think that ebay, Cisco and paypal are all in that category.
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by nostrademons on Monday October 13, 2008 @05:49PM (#331584)
EBay got big slowly...they went almost 2 years between initial launch and VC funding. Also, they're one of the few companies that was profitable before the founder quit his day job.
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by skmurphy on Monday October 13, 2008 @06:10PM (#331624)
Cisco grew profitably from before they took Sequoia's money. Some years they grew rapidly, but always profitably until the dotcom crash.
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by pg on Monday October 13, 2008 @05:19PM (#331555)
It was used fairly successfully by both of the two most famous early Web cos, Netscape and Yahoo. In fact it was their example that made the idea popular.
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by dhouston on Monday October 13, 2008 @05:22PM (#331557)
facebook, youtube
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by hello_moto on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @11:21AM (#332268)
Technically, Amazon made money but opted to grow faster. Youtube on the other hand didn't make money at all. They were losing money fast. They got lucky Google bought them.
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Re:Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks by run4yourlives on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @01:18PM (#332364)
Neither of which have turned much of a profit yet, AFAIK.
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