Sequoia Made a Fortune Investing in the U.S. and China. Then It Had to Pick One.

Shen told Chinese financial news outlet Yicai in a 2016 interview posted to YouTube in 2019 about an internal Sequoia database that held 40 years of the firm's intelligence on the companies it had invested in and that Sequoia teams worldwide could access. Shen excelled, with investments in companies including food-delivery company Meituan and e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. Since Sequoia China uses the firm's name, the staff aides and officials argued, there must be more that Sequoia Capital can do. [Extracted from the article]