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See Shaun Maguire's recent investments in Series A Cloud Infrastructure, other investment areas, and co-investors. ZIERLER: Shaun, do you have a sense of the origin story of Sequoiawhat niche it was looking to fill when it started? To answer the question: bachelor's degree from USC, University of Southern California, but there's a lot more to the story. When I was in sixth grade, NASA had this program called SAREX, Satellite Amateur Radio Experiment. I had to say yes to it on the spot, so I went to DARPA for a year and a half full-time there. ZIERLER: Shaun, a question I've been excited to ask you since I first reached out: with your area of expertise, as a student of history, I wonder if you've ever thought about some of the parallels between, for example, a Bell Labs in the 60s, 50s, 70s, the middle part of the 20th centurythe industrial support for fundamental research and how you might compare that with what Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Honeywell are doing with regard to quantum information today. Out of the three you mentioned, I think Google is the only one that has a lot of parallels. The string theorists weren't asking to have all these articles written about them and get all this hype in a lot of ways. He had, every Wednesday morning, a group of literally three kids that were interested in these things, so we would go and he would teach us some mathematical problem solving. Ive got to believe that they work incredibly hard in part to make their families proud. I had this unbelievably lucky thing: one of my friends' dad was a local community college professor. Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that helps daring founders build legendary technology companies. I didn't even know about math competitions. I think maybe on the faculty level it was a bigger deal, because it changed who was on the committees. Regina was a Caltech alum who was the Director of DARPA. I don't know, I was learning the rest. Thank you so much for joining me today. I like high-IQ founders. Adam Crafton. As ever with high-earning, high-profile . [few minutes pause] When you got to the group meetings with John, what were some of the big debates that were happening?