Atrocities prompt more calls to ban Russian energy
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The venerable venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, has announced a change in leadership, Elon Musk has bought a nearly-10 per cent stake in Twitter, French president Emmanual Macron has called for a ban on Russian oil and coal.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Tuesday, April 5th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.0 | One of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms is going to have a new leader. |
| 0:22.9 | A Chinese technology giant is caught between opportunity in Russia and US sanctions, |
| 0:28.1 | and in Europe calls to cut energy ties with Russia are growing louder. |
| 0:32.8 | Plus Elon Musk has taken a huge stake in Twitter. |
| 0:37.2 | It is unusual for any individual CEO to take a personal stake in another company, |
| 0:43.4 | between one that doesn't necessarily have relevance to his industry or expertise. |
| 0:47.6 | But with Elon, everything's on the table, I guess. |
| 0:50.4 | The FT Suji in-depth will help us figure out Musk's latest move. |
| 0:54.8 | A Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:07.1 | The venture capital firm Sequoia Capital is a bedrock of Silicon Valley. |
| 1:11.3 | For the past 50 years, it's back tech companies that have reshaped a consumer and corporate life |
| 1:16.0 | including Apple and Google. Yesterday announced a rare leadership change. |
| 1:20.8 | Ruloth Bohta will take over in July when the current CEO Doug Leon retires. |
| 1:26.3 | Bohta now runs Sequoia's US and European operations. |
| 1:29.7 | This is only the third leadership change in the firm's history. |
| 1:33.2 | But the new head of Sequoia won't have full control of the firm's global operations, |
| 1:38.3 | a letter to investors spelled out limits to Bohta's new role, especially when it comes to Sequoia's |
| 1:43.9 | China operation. |
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