Sequoia Capital
A company in the archive: 2 stories feature Sequoia Capital. Each one is sourced and dated.
Stories featuring Sequoia Capital
In the archive
- The $30,000 of Cereal That Kept Airbnb Alive$40→$86.5BOne cereal box → Value, IPO day
In 2008 Airbnb's founders were deep in credit card debt and nobody wanted to invest. So they sold cereal at $40 a box. Twelve years later the company was worth $86.5 billion on its first day of trading.
- Facebook Paid $19 Billion for WhatsApp$250K→$19BSeed money → Facebook's price
Two former Yahoo engineers started WhatsApp with $250,000 from old colleagues. Five years later Facebook agreed to pay $19 billion for it.
