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Sequoia Partners Prioritize Conviction Over Consensus
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Sequoia Capital partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady described their investment voting system on the Jack Altman podcast released Tuesday. They record partner votes on a one-to-ten scale for every deal, treating scores above six as positive and four or below as negative, and say presence of conviction matters more than consensus. They train junior investors to embrace risk to surface outlier winners.
Key Points
- 1Record votes on a one-to-ten scale for every investment over more than a decade
- 2Value high-variance opinions because conviction predicts outlier wins better than consensus
- 3Train junior investors to accept failure and build risk appetite to spot outliers
Scoring Rationale
Practical insight into Sequoia's decision process, but limited novelty and single-source reporting reduces broader impact.
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