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Sequoia just landed a 5x return on their fund with this one deal.

At a rough guess, they put in $8m for 15% of the company in 2011, valuing it at around $53m.

A $16B sale is a 300x increase in value, so Sequoia's stake is worth $2.4bn. Their standard fund size is around $500m.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-sequoia-funds-i...



I hope those guys do something interesting with their billions. But so far the only billionaires that realize the power of a billion dollars in personal capital seem to be Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.


Don't forget Bill Gates.


Soros, Buffet. But overall, yes, the improverished imagination of billionaires never ceases to amaze me.


Wayne.


Stark.


Not too bad for the two founders then. 6.8 billion dollars each.


There are surely a lot of other shareholders besides the founders and sequoia.


They only received 8 million in funding though.


"They decided to hold a second funding round, in secret. Sequoia would invest another $50 million, valuing WhatsApp at $1.5 billion."

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-...


Would investment necessarily be limited to one fund?


A single 8mm investment almost definitely would be.


They also invested ~$50m last year at a ~$1B valuation, so their stake is worth even more. Probably closer to $3B.




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