You can find our guide to pitching below (with a few refinements from years of use).
And we love to partner early- when an idea is newly formed and has the maximal room to grow.
We love partnering with founders hell-bent on bringing an idea to life that conventional wisdom deems impossible. They made a great deck.īut it wasn’t really the slides we liked-it was their ideas, the clarity of their thinking, and the scope of their ambition. They came across Sequoia’s guide for how to write a business plan and the rest is history. When Brian, Joe and Nate founded Airbnb, they had an air mattress, entrepreneurial passion, and a vision for reinventing travel and hospitality, but no clear idea how to approach VCs or how to craft a pitch deck.