#1263 Shaun Maguire | Sequoia Partner on Bitcoin, Elon Musk, SpaceX, and DARPA

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital. In this conversation, we talk about Shaun’s time with DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan, and what DARPA was thinking of bitcoin in the early days. We also talk about a company that Shaun helped co-found which sold for a billion dollars, breakdown of Sequoia Capital, SpaceX, Tesla, Elon Musk, and more.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.7	podcast, which is my effort to find the most interesting people in the world and sit with them for hours while I ask questions in an effort to learn. So it would mean the world to me if you would subscribe to the show on your favorite audio platform, watch episodes on YouTube,
0:21.1	and tell your friends and family about the podcast. My goal is to help millions learn from
0:26.3	the world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. Today's episode is with
0:32.1	Sean McGuire. Sean is a partner at Sequoia Capital. In this conversation, we talk about
0:37.4	Sean's time with DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan
0:40.7	and what DARPA was thinking about Bitcoin in the early days.
0:44.1	Then we talk about a company that Sean helped co-found, which was sold for a billion dollars,
0:48.3	how Sequoia itself thinks about traits of the best founders, how they make decisions internally,
0:53.3	and how they think about
0:54.3	allocating capital in an ever-changing environment. And then Sean and I go super deep on all types
0:59.6	of different technologies, including how he looks at SpaceX, where Sequoia and himself have invested
1:05.2	over a billion dollars in the last couple of years. We talk about Tesla, Elon Musk, and much,
1:10.1	much more. I really enjoyed
1:11.5	this conversation with Sean, and I really hope that you guys enjoy it as well. I really learned a lot
1:16.1	from Sean, and I think that this is going to be one of those episodes that people will come back
1:19.7	to quite often. Here is my conversation with Sean McGuire.
1:24.4	Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments. All views of him and the guests on his podcast are
1:30.0	sure with their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Pomp investments. You should not
1:34.2	treat any opinion expressed by Pomp or his guest as a specific inducement to make a particular
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