Except you don't get points for merely getting on base -- it's not "success". And if the bases are loaded, a safe double is better than a home run with bases e

Except you don't get points for merely getting on base -- it's not "success". And if the bases are loaded, a safe double is better than a home run with bases empty. As for Sequoia, they funded YouTube. If they had thought it could go public, why would they sell to Google? I assume because getting bought by an established company with a very strong stock status is preferable to rolling the dice -- IPOs can go straight downhill. I think it's pretty obvious that they never planned on an IPO, but instead on a bidding war between Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (and maybe others).