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As a partner, I want to be as trusted as the management team members. As a founder, you should screen investors for whether they are going to be a sparring partner during good times and a shock absorber during bad times.Our job is to become partners with the founders and the management teams that we back from idea to IPO and beyond. At Seqouia, we don’t buy low and sell high.Don Valentine, the “grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital,” often asked founders one question to understand who they are and why they started their company: “What matters?” Internally at partner meetings, he’d slightly refine that and ask, “Will this company matter in 10 years?” I think one thing people forget about when pitching is tying all that together.

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