Crucible Moments
By Sequoia Capital
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Episodes: 28
Description
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
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen - How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Zipline ft Keller Cliffton - Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Crucible Moments Season 3: Coming October 23
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Nubank ft. David Vélez - An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Dropbox ft. Drew Houston - How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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LIVE: ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Unlocking Elite Level Execution
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Robinhood ft. Vlad Tenev - Reinventing Finance for a New Generation
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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YouTube ft. Steve Chen - 18 Months That Changed the Internet
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Natera ft. Matthew Rabinowitz - A Personal Mission That Led to a Biotech Revolution
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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LIVE: DoorDash’s Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi Talk Scaling Operational Excellence
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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DoorDash ft. Tony Xu - The “Wrong” Moves That Built a Giant
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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UiPath ft. Daniel Dines - From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Reddit ft. Steve Huffman - The Making (and Remaking) of the Front Page of the Internet
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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MongoDB ft. Dev Ittycheria - How an Early Pivot Catalyzed an Open Source Movement
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred Luddy - From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Crucible Moments Season 2: Coming August 29
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Introducing "Training Data," a new podcast from Sequoia about the future of A.I.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Nvidia ft. Jensen Huang - An overnight success story 30 years in the making
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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23andMe ft. Anne Wojcicki - How a DNA startup took on the FDA and redefined health tech
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Jawbone ft. Hosain Rahman - The rise and fall of the first wearable technology company
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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HubSpot ft. Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah - How an underdog helped invent modern marketing, and then took on Goliath
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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
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Airbnb ft. Brian Chesky - Battling a copycat clone and rebuilding user trust to revolutionize travel
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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PayPal ft. Max Levchin - A merger of enemies that reshaped Silicon Valley
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Introducing "Crucible Moments"
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Aug 30, 2023 |