Sean McGuire
Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital, where he focuses on enterprise, fintech, and frontier technology investments. He joined Sequoia in 2019 after serving as a partner at GV, and previously co-founded the cybersecurity company Expanse, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and the alternative launch company Escape Dynamics. He holds a PhD in Physics from Caltech and has led Sequoia investments in companies including SpaceX, The Boring Company, and xAI. He is best known for his focus on deep technology and hardware, as well as his investments in companies associated with Elon Musk.
“I recently read this incredible post on Twitter by this Square investor Sean McGuire about... it was an incredible treatise on how Elon Musk runs companies. And we end up realizing he spends all his time on the most important thing.”
Source→“I met with Sean McGuire like three years ago. And he said, I wish I could come back and be a hardware hedge fund because all the companies are public and they all have powerful IP.”
Source→“I just met him, Sean McGuire from Sequoia. I love Sean... We went on a walk. Turns out we went to the same high school. We have a bunch of similarities. They're both fucking nuts.”
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