Roelof Botha⁠

I'm an adviser at Sequoia Capital, after nearly 24 years as a partner and three years as PayPal's CFO.

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Roelof Botha⁠

I'm an adviser at Sequoia Capital, after nearly 24 years as a partner and three years as PayPal's CFO.

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Roelof Botha⁠

I'm an adviser at Sequoia Capital, after nearly 24 years as a partner and three years as PayPal's CFO.

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Roelof Botha⁠

About

Experiences

Adviser; Board representative@Sequoia CapitalLed Sequoia through its biggest transitions, then passed the torch

Partner@Sequoia CapitalNearly failed Sequoia's “humanity gene” test, then backed Instagram and Square

HostHost of “Crucible Moments”

Investor; Board memberBacked YouTube after uploading my honeymoon video

Player; FanA rugby concussion left a white patch in my hair

Family / Reading · 2000s–presentSpent weekends reading with my family and raising South African silkworms

Chief Financial Officer@PayPal Holdings, Inc.Took PayPal public at 28

Career decisionsTook a 50% pay cut for McKinsey, then bet on PayPal

MBA student@Stanford Graduate School of BusinessWent to Stanford for an MBA, met my wife, and fell for startups

Actuarial Science student@University of Cape TownStudied actuarial science as a ticket out of South Africa

Early lifeBorn to a 16-year-old mother and raised with my grandparents in South Africa

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Roelof Botha⁠

About

Experiences

Adviser; Board representative@Sequoia CapitalLed Sequoia through its biggest transitions, then passed the torch

Partner@Sequoia CapitalNearly failed Sequoia's “humanity gene” test, then backed Instagram and Square

HostHost of “Crucible Moments”

Investor; Board memberBacked YouTube after uploading my honeymoon video

Player; FanA rugby concussion left a white patch in my hair

Family / Reading · 2000s–presentSpent weekends reading with my family and raising South African silkworms

Chief Financial Officer@PayPal Holdings, Inc.Took PayPal public at 28

Career decisionsTook a 50% pay cut for McKinsey, then bet on PayPal

MBA student@Stanford Graduate School of BusinessWent to Stanford for an MBA, met my wife, and fell for startups

Actuarial Science student@University of Cape TownStudied actuarial science as a ticket out of South Africa

Early lifeBorn to a 16-year-old mother and raised with my grandparents in South Africa

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Roelof Botha⁠

About

Experiences

Adviser; Board representative@Sequoia CapitalLed Sequoia through its biggest transitions, then passed the torch

Partner@Sequoia CapitalNearly failed Sequoia's “humanity gene” test, then backed Instagram and Square

HostHost of “Crucible Moments”

Investor; Board memberBacked YouTube after uploading my honeymoon video

Player; FanA rugby concussion left a white patch in my hair

Family / Reading · 2000s–presentSpent weekends reading with my family and raising South African silkworms

Chief Financial Officer@PayPal Holdings, Inc.Took PayPal public at 28

Career decisionsTook a 50% pay cut for McKinsey, then bet on PayPal

MBA student@Stanford Graduate School of BusinessWent to Stanford for an MBA, met my wife, and fell for startups

Actuarial Science student@University of Cape TownStudied actuarial science as a ticket out of South Africa

Early lifeBorn to a 16-year-old mother and raised with my grandparents in South Africa

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