29 Quotes by Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.