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The original Sequoia profile on SBF reals like the Onion article as well: https://archive.ph/GQkCp https://archive.ph/GQkCp Patrick Boyle made a brilliant summ

The original Sequoia profile on SBF reals like the Onion article as well: https://archive.ph/GQkCp https://archive.ph/GQkCp Patrick Boyle made a brilliant summary of the FTX situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0

kwertyoowiyop 4y ago
Was the Sequoia article really published just six weeks ago? I figured it must have been a few years at least.
- FeistySkink 4y ago
  FTX is (or was) barely 3 years old. And Sequoia invested just last year.
jinto36 4y ago
That Sequoia letter aged amazingly poorly in just two months. "...FTX—a company that may very well end up creating the dominant all-in-one financial super-app of the future. Nothing is a sure bet in crypto, but just the possibility that FTX could join—or even eclipse—the big four of American banking (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank) means it’s already valued at $32 billion." More emphasis should have been on the "nothing is a sure bet".
- FeistySkink 4y ago
  It's strange that you bring the super app point up. Having worked in one the Sequoia-backed companies with a similar valuation in the past and following a few of their other investments, I could never understand the pressure to make a super app. Yes, I know about WeChat. But I just don't see these types of apps having a success where I live at the moment (not China).
  - pas 4y ago
    WhatsApp at this point is basic infrastructure in India (even has money transfer) and Brazil. I have no idea how profitable it is, but probably that's why everyone wants a superapp.
    - FeistySkink 4y ago
      I mean something else by a super app: it's an app that has different unrelated parts that can be split into separate ones. Like banking groceries, taxi, etc. Perhaps I misunderstand the term.

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The original Sequoia profile on SBF reals like the Onion article as well: https://archive.ph/GQkCp https://archive.ph/GQkCp Patrick Boyle made a brilliant summ

by FeistySkink 4y ago

kwertyoowiyop 4y ago
Was the Sequoia article really published just six weeks ago? I figured it must have been a few years at least.
- FeistySkink 4y ago
  FTX is (or was) barely 3 years old. And Sequoia invested just last year.
jinto36 4y ago
That Sequoia letter aged amazingly poorly in just two months. "...FTX—a company that may very well end up creating the dominant all-in-one financial super-app of the future. Nothing is a sure bet in crypto, but just the possibility that FTX could join—or even eclipse—the big four of American banking (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank) means it’s already valued at $32 billion." More emphasis should have been on the "nothing is a sure bet".
- FeistySkink 4y ago
  It's strange that you bring the super app point up. Having worked in one the Sequoia-backed companies with a similar valuation in the past and following a few of their other investments, I could never understand the pressure to make a super app. Yes, I know about WeChat. But I just don't see these types of apps having a success where I live at the moment (not China).
  - pas 4y ago
    WhatsApp at this point is basic infrastructure in India (even has money transfer) and Brazil. I have no idea how profitable it is, but probably that's why everyone wants a superapp.
    - FeistySkink 4y ago
      I mean something else by a super app: it's an app that has different unrelated parts that can be split into separate ones. Like banking groceries, taxi, etc. Perhaps I misunderstand the term.