sequel @joinsequel

'I took the IQ test as a kid. They pulled me aside and told me I'm an idiot.' From an IQ test score of 80 to multiple successful exits. @sahin has lived nine founder lives: four companies in Turkey, four in Silicon Valley, and now his ninth venture. From doing 1,000 meetings through Calendly to landing key partnerships remotely, this is a conversation about speed, risk, and the founder toolkit that makes the impossible feel normal. Here's what we spoke about: 01:15 First business at 12 03:12 Video games, coding, and first real company 06:53 The founder pain that led to his current company 08:21 AI, entrepreneurship everywhere, and a new kind of capitalism 17:33 History, welfare, and why wealth can become service 19:58 His philosophy on risk 22:48 Betting on remote work before everyone else 27:20 Remote can build $100M, but $100B needs proximity 35:08 Religion, meaning, abundance, and the future of life 40:42 Advice to his younger self, investing, and the IQ story

Welcome actors, musicians, artists and entrepreneurs.

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

4 months ago

🎶 It's the edge of the world and all of Western civisliation 🎶 sequel membership is now open to athletes, artists and entrepreneurs. I'm moving to California. 'We're deeply aware that we are not the main characters' - tomorrow we share our new platform for founders.

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Congratulations to @matiii & the ElevenLabs team. Lessons from success > lessons from failure.

ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs

4 months ago

We raised $500M at an $11B valuation to transform how people interact with technology.

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Anastasia’s maxims.

sequel @joinsequel

5 months ago

'I raised my kids to be unemployable.' How do you build “big” without your family paying the price? @AnasKoroleva is a four-time exited founder and the host of The Exit Paradox podcast. She has an unrivalled knowledge of Post-Exit pitfalls. She is also the mother to 3

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How can a $100m+ exit leave you lonely, depressed and confused? The typical unicorn founder is not a 20s college-drop out. Founders who start in their 30s have a 14% higher chance of starting a unicorn than the average founder. Which begs the question - how can you be a great founder and a great parent? @AnasKoroleva has started and exited 4 companies, including her first $100m+ exit 13 years ago... What should be a crowning moment in anyone's life, right? No. It cost her her marriage, friendships and millions. She found herself depressed, confused and lonely. Since then she's sought wisdom and therapy through speaking to hundreds of exited founders. Through this she built a solid foundation for her life, including for her children (who are all becoming very successful in their own right). One of the secrets she discovered to being a successful mother & founder: creating artificial constraints.

sequel @joinsequel

5 months ago

'I raised my kids to be unemployable.' How do you build “big” without your family paying the price? @AnasKoroleva is a four-time exited founder and the host of The Exit Paradox podcast. She has an unrivalled knowledge of Post-Exit pitfalls. She is also the mother to 3

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'I raised my kids to be unemployable.' How do you build “big” without your family paying the price? @AnasKoroleva is a four-time exited founder and the host of The Exit Paradox podcast. She has an unrivalled knowledge of Post-Exit pitfalls. She is also the mother to 3 fascinating children, and in this episode she shares the techniques and processes on how she raised them. From how she thinks about motivation to the boundaries that protect family time, this is a conversation about building success that doesn’t cost you what matters most. Here's what we spoke about: 2:07 - Turning problem-spotting into a competitive advantage 6:34 - Hiring how people sell themselves 11:05 - Work + parenting pressure 11:19 - How to not fail the kids while also not failing the businesses 17:26 - Incentives as a tool for shaping behaviour 21:36 - Cheap dopamine and how it shapes attention and habits 27:52 - Sunk-cost loop, throwing good money after bad and getting stuck 35:41 - Angel investing vs cashflow businesses 40:07 - Raising your children to be unemployable 43:18 - Brain chemistry as a major driver of sustained change

The hidden side of money for footballers & athletes with @mattjpsmith

Business of Sport @bizzofsport

5 months ago

We think we understand the finances of professional footballers. Salaries. Cars. Headlines. End of story. The reality is far more fragile and far less talked about. @mattjpsmith played 500+ games for Leeds, Fulham, QPR & Millwall. Unlike most players, he didn’t outsource every

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"They say in sport, you die twice.” From applying for jobs at Accenture & Bain to 600 games in the Championship, @mattjpsmith's path to professional football was anything but conventional. A University footballer. Going out three times a week. Then a scout spotted him… 15 years later, he's one of the longest-serving Championship strikers in history. Now he's navigating the hardest transition of all: life after the game. Here's what we spoke about: 2:28 - How spinning plates early made the transition easier 4:02 - The identity crisis no one prepares you for 10:14 - "I never had the most natural God-given talent" 11:21 - Why he's a big believer in the 1% 14:04 - What his dad sacrificed before anyone believed 17:37 - Advice to his 16-year-old self 25:46 - The myth that athletes have no spare time 28:43 - How Harry Stebbings reached out over Twitter—and what happened next 30:17 - The hardest part: being out of favour with managers 33:03 - The phone call that changed everything—wages slashed 50% 42:10 - "Always spin your plates early" 42:58 - "Try to be the dumbest guy in the room"

Welcome. 🫡

Lars Eller @lellerofficial

6 months ago

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve recently joined the Athlete Advisory Board at @joinsequel. They’re creating an outstanding platform designed for athletes to connect with peers, build valuable networks, access high-quality educational resources, and selectively engage in

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@lellerofficial Welcome to the team 🫡

‘Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.’

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

6 months ago

How was 2025 for the @joinsequel team? The scorecard is out... Thank you to: - the 18 new founding teams who chose to partner with us - the 174 new pro athlete members who trusted us to grow our AUM 4.4x - the 30 top tier funds who co-invested with us - my team who created

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'Success = Sacrifice' Looking back to our first sequel original interview with @Evra a month ago.

sequel @joinsequel

7 months ago

'Was I happy? No. I was a monster. That was part of my winning mindset.' From sleeping on the streets of Paris to lifting the Champions League trophy. Sequel member Patrice @Evra 's story is proof that greatness isn’t given, it’s earned. A five-time Premier League winner.

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'Being an entrepreneur is like designing a new path that didn't exist before.' @Mattisani on the importance of embracing ambiguity

sequel @joinsequel

6 months ago

Does the world need more listeners or more rebels? From bootstrapping an idea to building a billion-dollar company. Michele Attisani, along with his partners, built FACEIT, one of the leading esports platforms, scaling it to over 30 million users before a $1.5B exit. Here's

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Talent is upstream of both sales and fundraising. The very best founders prioritise hiring, developing and retaining talent ahead of all other processes. If you want to learn more about @NStoronsky 's hiring and performance playbooks - he actually publishes them on the Quantum Light website (his investment vehicle): quantumlightcapital.com/playbooks/hiri…

sequel @joinsequel

6 months ago

The secret internal people system behind Revolut's $75 billion success.

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The secret internal people system behind Revolut's $75 billion success.

sequel @joinsequel

6 months ago

'If it doesn't hurt, you're not doing it right.' From the early days inside Revolut’s rise to becoming one of the youngest partners in @sequoia history, @_georgerobson has spent his career operating in the highest-performance environments. He’s developed a rare eye for

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@N_Sportelli Stories are engines. Sparks that detonate in the minds of the next generation and push humanity forward. x.com/alexfmac/statu…

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

7 months ago

Humanity's Propulsion System: Storytelling Investors and founders often talk about the power of storytelling from a capital raising perspective. While this is a skill required to accumulate resources - this is a crude simplification of the importance of storytelling to

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@signulll Stories are engines. Sparks that detonate in the minds of the next generation and push humanity forward. x.com/alexfmac/statu…

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

7 months ago

Humanity's Propulsion System: Storytelling Investors and founders often talk about the power of storytelling from a capital raising perspective. While this is a skill required to accumulate resources - this is a crude simplification of the importance of storytelling to

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@julianweisser Our storytelling is rooted in the classics. Herodotus. Stories are engines. Sparks that detonate in the minds of the next generation and push humanity forward. x.com/alexfmac/statu…

Alex Macdonald @alexfmac

7 months ago

Humanity's Propulsion System: Storytelling Investors and founders often talk about the power of storytelling from a capital raising perspective. While this is a skill required to accumulate resources - this is a crude simplification of the importance of storytelling to

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Where would @_georgerobson from @sequoia invest $1m?

sequel @joinsequel

6 months ago

'If it doesn't hurt, you're not doing it right.' From the early days inside Revolut’s rise to becoming one of the youngest partners in @sequoia history, @_georgerobson has spent his career operating in the highest-performance environments. He’s developed a rare eye for

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