{"id":25,"date":"2022-02-09T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/how-roelof-botha-became-one-of-vcs-most-powerful\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T08:56:19","slug":"crucible-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/crucible-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucible Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/sequoia-roelof-botha&quot;,&quot;display_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/sequoia-roelof-botha&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;How Roelof Botha became one of VC's most powerful people&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Few know the man who\u2019s transforming one of Silicon Valley\u2019s top VC firms. Here\u2019s what founders and other insiders think of him and his plan &quot;,&quot;site_name&quot;:&quot;Protocol \u2014 The people, power and politics of tech&quot;,&quot;poster&quot;:[{&quot;media_key&quot;:&quot;1180b78967fcad2790b9b979f11ec893:6871c2933e2e8830-bd&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;height&quot;:600}]}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/sequoia-roelof-botha\" target=\"_blank\">How Roelof Botha became one of VC&rsquo;s most powerful people<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the first \u201ccrucible moment\u201d in his professional life, a phrase that Botha and the Sequoia partners like to use for a serious trial with significant outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Roelof Botha became one of VC&rsquo;s most powerful people It was the first \u201ccrucible moment\u201d in his professional life, a phrase that Botha and the Sequoia partners like to use for a serious trial with significant outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,2],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-people","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}