Podscud - Crucible Moments

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.

Crucible Moments

Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity

Bolt ft. Markus Villig - From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility

Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen - How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’

Zipline ft Keller Cliffton - Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport

Crucible Moments Season 3: Coming October 23

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

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

LIVE: ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Unlocking Elite Level Execution

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crucible Moments Season 2: Coming August 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Airbnb ft. Brian Chesky - Battling a copycat clone and rebuilding user trust to revolutionize travel

PayPal ft. Max Levchin - A merger of enemies that reshaped Silicon Valley

Introducing "Crucible Moments"