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Going Big in Venture Capital

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years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. Back then, folks all over Twitter were making fun of Sequoia for investing $20m+ in an iOS app that never launched and failed. Some may even be more than just 1%-3% of the committed capital pic.twitter.com/hqca4dfVxY. It would be to me. >>

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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394: Where is Venture Capital today? Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. You’ve spent almost your entire career in venture, back when an $800 million exit might be exciting, before any of this stuff was hot. And how do you hack it?

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

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I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. We make early stage Series A investments in both consumer and enterprise companies. Most everybody?

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