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...really thought it would be more modeling,” said Sequoia L. Taylor, a freshman at Wellesley College. “The dancing and music really does add to the show, but I think there should be more modeling next year...
Pretty soon the sun, an orange gob, slid down the cobalt sky, and the field lights came on. Slab-sided referees took their positions. The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone...
TheFacebook’s first summer house was a sublet in suburban Palo Alto, a fifteen-minute drive from world famous venture capital firms like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, and walking distance from the Stanford campus, breeding ground of tech legends like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
...Silicon Valley. Especially when the business of social networking is involved. In October and November 2003, venture capital firms poured nearly $36 million dollars into four social networking websites—Tribe, LinkedIn, Friendster, and Spoke, according to the companies’ websites. Mark Kvamme, a partner at Sequoia capital, has gone so far as to dub the phenomenon “Internet 2.0,” and everyone from Microsoft to Google wants...
...story: Having amassed an unmanageable number of contacts over the course of Napster’s legal battle, Sean Parker had an idea for an electronic address book tool that would automatically organize and update contact information. Plaxo partnered with Sequoia Capital to launch the project. To date, Sequoia has helped Plaxo raise $20 million in venture money. Four years later, Plaxo now has more than five million users and is on its way to becoming a profitable corporation. The only thing Plaxo doesn’t have is Parker, who left the company in April of last year...