23 Episodes

  1. Nubank ft. David Vélez - An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System

    Published: 1/23/2025

  2. Dropbox ft. Drew Houston - How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself

    Published: 1/9/2025

  3. LIVE: ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Unlocking Elite Level Execution

    Published: 1/2/2025

  4. Robinhood ft. Vlad Tenev - Reinventing Finance for a New Generation

    Published: 12/19/2024

  5. YouTube ft. Steve Chen - 18 Months That Changed the Internet

    Published: 12/5/2024

  6. Natera ft. Matthew Rabinowitz - A Personal Mission That Led to a Biotech Revolution

    Published: 11/21/2024

  7. LIVE: DoorDash’s Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi Talk Scaling Operational Excellence

    Published: 11/14/2024

  8. DoorDash ft. Tony Xu - The “Wrong” Moves That Built a Giant

    Published: 10/24/2024

  9. UiPath ft. Daniel Dines - From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs

    Published: 10/10/2024

  10. Reddit ft. Steve Huffman - The Making (and Remaking) of the Front Page of the Internet

    Published: 9/26/2024

  11. MongoDB ft. Dev Ittycheria - How an Early Pivot Catalyzed an Open Source Movement

    Published: 9/12/2024

  12. ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred Luddy - From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake

    Published: 8/29/2024

  13. Crucible Moments Season 2: Coming August 29

    Published: 8/22/2024

  14. Introducing "Training Data," a new podcast from Sequoia about the future of A.I.

    Published: 7/11/2024

  15. Nvidia ft. Jensen Huang - An overnight success story 30 years in the making

    Published: 11/30/2023

  16. 23andMe ft. Anne Wojcicki - How a DNA startup took on the FDA and redefined health tech

    Published: 11/16/2023

  17. Jawbone ft. Hosain Rahman - The rise and fall of the first wearable technology company

    Published: 11/2/2023

  18. HubSpot ft. Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah - How an underdog helped invent modern marketing, and then took on Goliath

    Published: 10/19/2023

  19. Eventbrite ft. Julia Hartz - A thriving events company took 14 years to build and nearly disappeared in 14 days

    Published: 10/5/2023

  20. Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app

    Published: 9/21/2023

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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.