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Crucible Moments

by Sequoia Capital

A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory. In Season 2, hear from founders and leaders like Steve Chen of YouTube, Drew Houston of Dropbox, Frank Slootman of ServiceNow and Tony Xu of DoorDash, Steve Huffman of Reddit and more about how they navigated the challenges and opportunities that defined their stories. Hosted by Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.

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Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity
Dec 4, 2025
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Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility
Nov 20, 2025
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Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen - How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’
Nov 6, 2025
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Zipline ft Keller Cliffton - Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport
Oct 23, 2025
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Crucible Moments Season 3: Coming October 23
Oct 16, 2025
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Nubank ft. David Vélez - An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System
When Nubank started 10 years ago, a few big banks in Brazil had a stranglehold on the largest economy in Latin America.
Jan 23, 2025
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Dropbox ft. Drew Houston - How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself
A scrappy upstart taking on hyperscalers in a category with lots of hand-wavers, Dropbox became the canonical example of Silicon Valley viral growth.
Jan 9, 2025
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LIVE: ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Unlocking Elite Level Execution
At a recent closed event in Europe, Sequoia partner Pat Grady spoke with ServiceNow’s current CEO Bill McDermott, who took the reins in 2019.
Jan 2, 2025
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Robinhood ft. Vlad Tenev - Reinventing Finance for a New Generation
Millions of Americans use their smartphones to invest and manage their finances every day—but before Robinhood started in 2013, finance looked very different.
Dec 19, 2024
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YouTube ft. Steve Chen - 18 Months That Changed the Internet
This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot that succeeded against all odds.
Dec 5, 2024
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Natera ft. Matthew Rabinowitz - A Personal Mission That Led to a Biotech Revolution
Founder Matthew Rabinowitz opens up about the intensely personal journey that set him on a course to revolutionizing healthcare.
Nov 21, 2024
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LIVE: DoorDash’s Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi Talk Scaling Operational Excellence
Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi share insights from building two of the world's most successful delivery platforms—DoorDash and Wolt
Nov 14, 2024
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DoorDash ft. Tony Xu - The “Wrong” Moves That Built a Giant
DoorDash faced skeptics from the start. GrubHub, Delivery.com, and others were already addressing the restaurant delivery market when CEO Tony Xu and his co-founders started in 2013.
Oct 24, 2024
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UiPath ft. Daniel Dines - From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs
The biggest enterprise software company to come out of Europe in the last decade didn’t come from London, Paris, Berlin or Stockholm—but Bucharest, Romania.
Oct 10, 2024
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Reddit ft. Steve Huffman - The Making (and Remaking) of the Front Page of the Internet
Reddit is one of the largest and most culturally influential sites on the internet—and its journey is one of the most unusual company stories in internet history.
Sep 26, 2024
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MongoDB ft. Dev Ittycheria - How an Early Pivot Catalyzed an Open Source Movement
MongoDB, founded in 2007, originally aimed to create a platform-as-a-service system with a new database layer.
Sep 12, 2024
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ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred Luddy - From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake
In 2004, bankrupt after the company where he’d previously worked had imploded, Fred Luddy decided to start over as a first-time founder at age 50.
Aug 29, 2024
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Crucible Moments Season 2: Coming August 29
In Season 1 of Crucible Moments, we heard from founders like PayPal’s Max Levchin, Block’s Jack Dorsey, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and more about the turning points and key decisions that shaped their journeys.
Aug 22, 2024
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Introducing "Training Data," a new podcast from Sequoia about the future of A.I.
Crucible Moments will be back shortly with season 2. You’ll hear from the founders of YouTube, DoorDash, Reddit, and more.
Jul 11, 2024
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Nvidia ft. Jensen Huang - An overnight success story 30 years in the making
CEO Jensen Huang tells the legendary story of Nvidia, from the company’s early days pioneering 3D graphics cards for a niche PC gaming market
Nov 30, 2023
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23andMe ft. Anne Wojcicki - How a DNA startup took on the FDA and redefined health tech
Millions of customers have explored their genome with 23andMe.
Nov 16, 2023
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Jawbone ft. Hosain Rahman - The rise and fall of the first wearable technology company
Co-founders Hosain Rahman and Alex Asseily, and Creative Director Yves Behar, recount the meteoric rise and fall of Jawbone.
Nov 2, 2023
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HubSpot ft. Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah - How an underdog helped invent modern marketing, and then took on Goliath
Oct 19, 2023
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Eventbrite ft. Julia Hartz - A thriving events company took 14 years to build and nearly disappeared in 14 days
What happens to an events company when every event is canceled?
Oct 5, 2023
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Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app
Sep 21, 2023
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Airbnb ft. Brian Chesky - Battling a copycat clone and rebuilding user trust to revolutionize travel
Sep 7, 2023
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PayPal ft. Max Levchin - A merger of enemies that reshaped Silicon Valley
Sep 7, 2023
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Introducing "Crucible Moments"
A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most important companies of our time.
Aug 30, 2023
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