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Founder10Past founder
9th percentile
Investor332Current investor
100th percentile
Combined
Sequoia Managing Partner who backed Airbnb, DoorDash, and Zappos from early stage
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Exits & Outcomes · 100th percentile
- Two portfolio companies went public: Airbnb (IPO 2020) and DoorDash (IPO 2021), both backed by Sequoia under Alfred Lin's partnership.
- Five portfolio acquisitions at or above $100M: Zappos (acquired by Amazon for $1.2B), Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft for $800M), LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265M), Ask Jeeves (acquired by IAC for ~$1.85B), and OpenTable (acquired by Priceline for ~$2.6B).
- Three additional portfolio acquisitions at undisclosed or smaller values: Cardpool, AppBistro (acquired by InMobi), and SalesCrunch (acquired by ClearSlide).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Alfred Lin has a Wikipedia page, confirming his public notability.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past founder of Venture Frogs LLC, an investment vehicle he founded in 1999.
Investor score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Partner (and managing partner since 2025) at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's top-tier venture capital firms.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Two portfolio companies went public: Airbnb (IPO 2020) and DoorDash (IPO 2021), both backed by Sequoia under Alfred Lin's partnership.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Five portfolio acquisitions at or above $100M: Zappos (acquired by Amazon for $1.2B), Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft for $800M), LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265M), Ask Jeeves (acquired by IAC for ~$1.85B), and OpenTable (acquired by Priceline for ~$2.6B).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Active GP and fund manager, having co-founded and managed Venture Frogs LLC.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Over 26 years of investing experience, starting with Venture Frogs LLC in 1999 (capped at 15 years for scoring).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio spanning consumer, gig economy, and other sectors.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)At least 12 confirmed active investments across Venture Frogs and Sequoia, including Zappos, Tellme, Ask Jeeves, OpenTable, DoorDash, Airbnb, Cardpool, AppBistro, SalesCrunch, MyAble, Mongo Music, and Kalshi.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Portfolio includes Zipline International, a still-private autonomous delivery company valued well above $1B with $2.5B in total funding.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Three additional portfolio acquisitions at undisclosed or smaller values: Cardpool, AppBistro (acquired by InMobi), and SalesCrunch (acquired by ClearSlide).
What you likely need
You're at the peak of your investing career and the highest-leverage events for you are small, high-signal rooms where you can shape AI and deep-tech deal flow, deepen LP and co-investor relationships around Sequoia's next fund cycle, and surface operator-turned-founder talent from networks like Zappos, Airbnb, and DoorDash alumni. You'll get the most out of intimate roundtables and dinners where your applied math background and cross-sector board pattern recognition (Airbnb, DoorDash, Citadel Securities, Kalshi) make you the most differentiated voice in the room, not just the most decorated. Skip the panels — the right Festival events put you across a table from 6-8 people who can move the needle on Collaborative Robotics, Clay, or Sequoia's next flagship fund.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA closed-door dinner with 6-8 founders and technical operators building in robotics and autonomous systems — anchored by your Zipline and Collaborative Robotics board seats — to sharpen Sequoia's proprietary AI and deep-tech investment thesis ahead of the next fund cycle
- fundraisingA Forbes Midas List #1 celebratory roundtable with top-tier institutional LPs and co-investors from Tiger Global, a16z, and Coatue to deepen relationships and surface soft commitments for Sequoia's next flagship fund
- positioningAn intimate dinner with founders and operators at the intersection of fintech and marketplace dynamics — drawing on your simultaneous board seats at Citadel Securities, Kalshi, Airbnb, and DoorDash — to pressure-test a public cross-sector thesis you could publish under your name
- introsA Zappos, Tellme, and LinkExchange operator alumni dinner to identify high-signal founder-operators who could anchor a formal Sequoia operator-angel or founder-in-residence program and surface pre-seed deal flow before it hits the market
- hiringA private Airbnb and DoorDash alumni talent roundtable to recruit senior AI-native product and engineering leaders directly into Clay and Nominal, leveraging your board access to both companies as the warm credentialing signal
- positioningA small workshop dinner with 4-5 quantitatively-minded founders and academics — nodding to your applied mathematics background — to workshop the core arguments of a long-form essay or podcast series on outlier detection and power-law investing that would differentiate you publicly from other top VCs
- wellbeingA half-day tactical offsite with your Sequoia principals and associates to map which of your 8+ active board observer seats can be formally delegated, protecting your decision-making bandwidth while giving the next generation of Sequoia investors meaningful board exposure
- hiringA curated AI-native SaaS founder dinner anchored by the Clay ($202M raised) and Nominal teams, bringing in 4-6 peer founders building in the same layer of the stack to accelerate cross-portfolio recruiting, GTM pattern sharing, and co-investor introductions