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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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