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2024 olympics New Zealand roster

Athletics

James Preston (Wellington)

Sam Tanner (Papamoa)

Georgie Beamish (Hastings)

Hamish Kerr (Dunedin)

Ethan Olivier (Vereeniging, South Africa)

Jack Gill (Auckland)

Tom Walsh (Timaru)

Connor Bell (Auckland)

Zoe Hobbs (New Plymouth)

Maia Ramsden (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Camille French (Hamilton)

Imogen Ayris (Auckland)

Eliza McCartney (Auckland)

Olivia McTaggart (Auckland)

Maddison-Lee Wesche (Auckland)

Tori Peeters (Cambridge)

Laura Bruce (Christchurch)

Canoeing

Finn Butcher (Auckland)

Hamish Legarth (Hastings)

Max Brown (Cambridge)

Grant Clancy (Auckland)

Kurtis Imrie (Wellington)

Luuka Jones (Tauranga)

Lucy Matehaere (Dunedin)

Lisa Buck (Ōhope)

Aimee Fisher (Rotorua)

Alicia Hoskin (Gisborne)

Olivia Brett (Auckland)

Tara Vaughan (Auckland)

Climbing

Julian David (Tauranga)

Sarah Tetzlaff (Tauranga)

Cycling

Laurence Pithie (Christchurch)

Corbin Strong (Invercargill)

Sam Dakin (Auckland)

Aaron Gate (Auckland)

Keegan Hornblow (Nelson)

Tom Sexton (Invercargill)

Campbell Stewart (Palmerston North)

Sam Gaze (Tokoroa)

Rico Bearman (North Harbour)

Niamh Fisher-Black (Nelson)

Kim Cadzow (Tauranga)

Ellesse Andrews (Christchurch)

Shaane Fulton (Hamilton)

Rebecca Petch (Te Awamutu)

Ally Wollaston (Waikato)

Bryony Botha (Auckland)

Emily Shearman (Palmerston North)

Nicole Shields (Clyde)

Samara Maxwell (Taupō)

Leila Walker (Cambridge)

Diving

Elizabeth Roussel (Auckland)

Equestrian

Clarke Johnstone (Matangi)

Tim Price (Rangiora)

Melissa Galloway (Tuamarina)

Jonelle Price (Rangiora)

Field hockey

Dom Dixon (Hawke's Bay)

Brad Read (Auckland)

Malachi Buschl (Dunedin)

Scott Boyde (Brisbane, Australia)

Dane Lett (Carterton)

Simon Child (Auckland)

Charlie Morrison (Christchurch)

Joe Morrison (Christchurch)

Jacob Smith (Wellington)

Sam Lane (Temuka)

Simon Yorston (Christchurch)

Nic Woods (Hamilton)

Kane Russell (Dunedin)

Blair Tarrant (Timaru)

Sean Findlay (Taradale)

Hugo Inglis (Dunedin)

Hayden Phillips (Levin)

Isaac Houlbrooke (Auckland)

Leon Hayward (Darwin, Australia)

Golf

Ryan Fox (Auckland)

Daniel Hillier (Wellington)

Ko Bo-Gyung (Orlando, Florida)

Gymnastics

Dylan Schmidt (Auckland)

Georgia-Rose Brown (Melbourne, Australia)

Maddie Davidson (Christchurch)

Judo

Moira Koster (Christchurch)

Sydnee Andrews (Camberley, U.K.)

Rowing

Tom Mackintosh (Hastings)

Dan Williamson (Beachlands)

Phillip Wilson (Wellington)

Robbie Manson (Hamilton)

Jordan Parry (Tauranga)

Matt Macdonald (Auckland)

Ollie Maclean (Auckland)

Tom Murray (Blenheim)

Logan Ullrich (Brisbane, Australia)

Emma Twigg (Napier)

Kate Haines (Hamilton)

Alana Sherman (Auckland)

Brooke Francis (Te Kauwhata)

Lucy Spoors (Christchurch)

Phoebe Spoors (Christchurch)

Jackie Kiddle (Wellington)

Shannon Cox (Whangārei)

Jackie Gowler (Raetihi)

Kerri Williams (Raetihi)

Davina Waddy (Christchurch)

Rugby

Scott Curry (Rotorua)

Brady Rush (Kerikeri)

Tone Shiu (Napier)

Akuila Rokolisoa (Lautoka, Fiji)

Dylan Collier (Ōpōtiki)

Ngarohi McGarvey-Black (Rotorua)

Fehi Fineanganofo (Auckland)

Andrew Knewstubb (Wellington)

Regan Ware (Tokoroa)

Tepaea Cook-Savage (Kaitaia)

Moses Leo (Auckland)

Leroy Carter (Tauranga)

Tevarn Webber (Hamilton)

Sione Molia (Pukekohe)

Michaela Blyde (New Plymouth)

Jazmin Hotham (Hamilton)

Sarah Hirini (Feilding)

Tyla King (Auckland)

Jorja Miller (Timaru)

Manaia Nuku (Hamilton)

Mahina Paul (Whakatāne)

Risealeaana Pouri-Lane (Auburn, Australia)

Alena Saili (Porirua)

Theresa Stefano (Auckland)

Stacey Fluhler (Papakura)

Portia Woodman (Kawakawa)

Sailing

Josh Armit (Auckland)

Lukas Walton-Keim (Auckland)

Tom Saunders (Auckland)

Isaac McHardie (Hamilton)

William McKenzie (Auckland)

Micah Williamson (Hamilton)

Greta Pilkington (Auckland)

Justina Kitchen (Auckland)

Joanna Aleh (Auckland)

Molly Meech (Auckland)

Erica Dawson (Auckland)

Shooting

Owen Robinson (Morrinsville)

Chloe Tipple (Christchurch)

Soccer

Alex Paulsen (Auckland)

Michael Boxall (Auckland)

Sam Sutton (Auckland)

Tyler Bindon (Los Angeles, California)

Finn Surman (Christchurch)

Joe Bell (Christchurch)

Matthew Garbett (Porirua)

Ben Old (Wellington)

Ben Waine (Wellington)

Sarpreet Singh (Auckland)

Jesse Randall (Wellington)

Kees Sims (Bracknell, U.K.)

Lukas Kelly-Heald (Wellington)

Jay Herdman (Invercargill)

Matthew Sheridan (Wellington)

Fin Conchie (Hamilton)

Lachlan Bayliss (Darwin, Australia)

Oskar Van Hattum (New Plymouth)

William Gillion (Auckland)

Isaac Hughes (Wellington)

Anna Leat (Auckland)

Kate Taylor (Christchurch)

Mackenzie Barry (New Plymouth)

Catherine Bott (Wellington)

Meikayla Moore (Christchurch)

Malia Steinmetz (Auckland)

Michaela Foster (Hamilton)

Macey Fraser (Rangiora)

Gabi Rennie (Rangiora)

Indiah-Paige Riley (Albany Creek, Australia)

Katie Kitching (Well, U.K.)

Victoria Esson (Christchurch)

Rebekah Stott (Papamoa)

Katie Bowen (Auckland)

Ally Green (Sydney, Australia)

Jacqueline Hand (Auckland)

Milly Clegg (Auckland)

Grace Jale (Auckland)

Annalie Longo (Auckland)

Surfing

Billy Stairmand (Raglan)

Saffi Vette (Gisborne)

Swimming

Kane Follows (Auckland)

Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (Christchurch)

Cameron Gray (Auckland)

Lewis Clareburt (Wellington)

Nina Brown (Auckland)

Eva Morris (Tauranga)

Laticia-Leigh Transom (Brisbane, Australia)

Erika Fairweather (Dunedin)

Eve Thomas (Auckland)

Vanessa Ouwehand (Auckland)

Caitlin Deans (Dunedin)

Tennis

Lulu Sun (Geneva, Switzerland)

Erin Routliffe (Caledon, Ontario)

Triathlon

Dylan McCullough (Auckland)

Hayden Wilde (Whakatāne)

Ainsley Thorpe (Auckland)

Nicole Van Der Kaay (Rotorua)

Weightlifting

David Liti (Auckland)

Wrestling

Tayla Ford (Christchurch)

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20VC: The Sequoia Investment Process | Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | Sequoia’s Framework for Analysing Founders | The True Benefit of Having Sequoia on a Cap Table & Sequoia’s Biggest Threat with Pat Grady

Pat Grady is one of the most successful growth investors of the last decade. As the Head of Sequoia‘s growth investing practice, Pat has invested in companies with a combined market cap exceeding $250BN. Among Pat’s immense portfolio is Hubspot, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Okta, Amplitude, Zoom and Qualtrics. Pat is also one of the best acquirers of talent in venture hiring Andrew Reed, Matt Huang,…

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The bois of my sci-fi universe

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Squad A4-22:

Best role model is either Jian, Sekani, or Alon

Worst role model is probably just everyone else but Isak and the twins are probably worse than the others

Nebula squad:

Best role model is Min

Worst is definitely Leon

Magic crew:

Best role model is Elara or Kenna

Worst role model for sure would be Malik

Which oc is the best role model? Which oc is the worst role model?

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Sequoia names veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha as Senior Steward effective July 5, replacing Doug Leone, who will remain as a GP of existing funds (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Sequoia names veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha as Senior Steward effective July 5, replacing Doug Leone, who will remain as a GP of existing funds (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sequoia names veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha as Senior Steward effective July 5, replacing Doug Leone, who will remain as a GP of existing funds  —  Sequoia Capital has a new global leader in veteran investor and PayPal alum Roelof Botha.  —  The heavyweight venture capital firm …

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Sequoia’s Doug Leone steps down, making way for new global head Roelof Botha

Sequoia’s Doug Leone steps down, making way for new global head Roelof Botha

Storied venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced today that leader Doug Leone would be stepping aside from his role as “senior steward” to be replaced with Roelof Botha, managing partner of Sequoia’s U.S. and Europe operations. Leone, the global managing partner of Sequoia Capital, wrote in a letter published on Twitter that he will remain a general partner in existing funds and will…

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20th Century Timeline: 1901-

Jan 1  A new century begins, continuing tough working conditions for laborers and Europe's conflict between nationalism and empire. Europe's elite and the Church are giving moral support to empire. Austria-Hungary's emperor, Franz Joseph, sees himself as most ethical.

Jan 10  Oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

Jan 22  Queen Victoria dies at age eight-one. Edward VII is crowned.

Jan 30  In Kansas, Carrie Nation, age 54, 6 feet tall and 175 pounds, accompanied by hymn singing women, is smashing up saloons.

Feb 1  In this month's issue of North American Review, Mark Twain has an essay titled "To the Person Sitting in Darkness." The article is critical of the Boer War, activities regarding the Boxer Rebellion and the US war in the Philippines. Some others are calling for support for "our troops." An American general in the Philippines complains about the loyalty of some at home.

Feb 5  Recognizing their diminishing influence in Central and South America and wanting to cultivate the United States as a counterweight to Germany's influence in that region, the British sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with the United States. With this treaty they approve US construction of a canal so long as the US recognizes neutrality of access.

Feb 23  Britain and Germany agree to a border between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland.

Feb 26  In China, the Boxer rebellion is winding down and foreign powers are asserting control. In Beijng two leaders of the Boxer Rebellion, Chi Hsui and Hsu-Cheng-yuo, are beheaded.

Mar 1  Britain, Germany, Japan and the US are unhappy about China's government letting Russia build railways in Manchuria.

Mar 2  The United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. The amendment declares the right of the US to intervene militarily in Cuban affairs.

Mar 4  President McKinley begins his second term.

Mar 15  Britain's Lord Kitchener is haggling with the Boer general, Louis Botha, over conditions for ending the Second Boer War. No agreement has been reached as the Boers continue to want autonomy if they are to be within the British Empire.

May 3  Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida. It started as a boiler explosion in a candle factory. Next it spread to a mattress factory and beyond, out of control. Fires are often big because of poor equipment and use of horsedrawn wagons.

May 9  Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.

May 23  The US military captures the Filipino independence leader, Emilio Aguinaldo, at his headquarters in the northeast of Luzon Island.

Jun 12  Cuba, occuppied since the Spanish American War in 1898, becomes a United States protectorate, meaning the US assumes responsibily for protecting Cuba from other counties while Cuba supposedly remains a sovereign power.

Aug 14  Aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead flies a motor-powered aircraft in Connecticut. In 2013 Jane's All The World's Aircraft will recognize Whitehead as making the first manned, powered, controlled flight.

Aug 25  A US army nurse, Clara Maass, age 25, dies after having volunteered for medical experiments that prove mosquitoes carry yellow fever.

Sep 6  At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, an anarchist mill worker, Leon Czolgosz, shoots President William McKinley. On the ground and bleeding, McKinley calls Czolgosz a "poor, misguided fellow" and asks that he not be hurt. McKinley will die eight days later.

Sep 7  The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. In China, the Dowager Empress, Cixi, signs an agreement with foreign powers formally ending the Boxer Rebellion. Boxer leaders other than she will soon be executed. Chinese nationalism will, however, live on.

Sep 14  Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States.

Sep 28  A surprise attack by anti-US forces on Samar Island in the Philippines kills 48 US soldiers.

Oct 16  US President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. Many southern whites react angrily to the visit. In the South racial violence increases.

Oct 29  In New York, Leon Czolgosz is executed in the electric chair. His having claimed that Emma Goldman influenced him philosophically has made her a target of hostile public opinion.

Dec 3  President Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits."

Dec 10  It is the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. In Stockholm the first Nobel Prize ceremony is held.

Dec 12  The first Morse code radio signal is sent across the Atlantic Ocean, from England to Newfoundland.

Dec 20  The Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway is completed with a final spike at the Lake Victoria port city of Kisumu, Kenya.

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2020 Olympics New Zealand Roster

Athletics

Sam Tanner (Tauranga)

Connor Bell (Auckland)

Malcolm Hicks (Auckland)

Quentin Rew (Wellington)

Zane Robertson (Hamilton)

Nick Willis (Lower Hutt)

Jack Gill (Belmont)

Hamish Kerr (Auckland)

Tom Walsh (Timaru)

Tori Peeters (Matamata)

Camille Buscomb (Cambridge)

Lauren Bruce (Christchurch)

Julia Ratcliffe (Hamilton)

Madison-Lee Wesche (Auckland)

Valerie Adams (Rotorua)

Boxing

David Nyika (Hamilton)

Canoeing

Callum Gilbert (Okere Falls)

Max Brown (Whanganui)

Kurtis Imrie (Lower Hutt)

Luuka Jones (North Palmerston)

Lisa Carrington (Ōhope)

Caitlin Regal (Takapuna)

Teneale Hatton (Auckland)

Alicia Hoskin (Gisborne)

Cycling

Sam Dakin (Cambridge)

Ethan Mitchell (Auckland)

Sam Webster (Auckland)

Aaron Gate (Auckland)

Regan Gough (Waipukurau)

Jordan Kerby (Brisbane, Australia)

Campbell Stewart (North Palmerston)

Corbin Strong (Invercargill)

George Bennett (Nelson)

Patrick Bevin (Cambridge)

Callum Saunders (Blenheim)

Anton Cooper (Westmorland)

Jessie Hodges (Hamilton)

Ellesse Andrews (Christchurch)

Kirstie Klingenberg (Auckland)

Bryony Botha (Takapuna)

Rushlee Buchanan (Hamilton)

Holly Edmondston (Nelson)

Jaime Nielsen (Hamilton)

Rebecca Petch (Te Awamutu)

Diving

Anton Down-Jenkins (Wellington)

Field Hockey

Steve Edwards (Auckland)

Sean Findlay (Taradale)

Leon Hayward (Darwin, Australia)

Hugo Inglis (Dunedin)

Stephen Jenness (Lower Hutt)

Sam Lane (Temuka)

Dane Lett (Carterton)

Shea McAleese (Canterbury)

Jared Panchia (Auckland)

Nick Ross (Dunedin)

Kane Russell (Dunedin)

Jacob Smith (Wellington)

Blair Tarrant (Timaru)

Dylan Thomas (Hastings)

Nick Wilson (North Palmerston)

Nic Woods (Hamilton)

David Brydon (Auckland)

George Muir (Auckland)

Katie Doar (Auckland)

Tarryn Davey (Morrinsville)

Olivia Shannon (Feilding)

Olivia Merry (Christchurch)

Frances Davies (Tauranga)

Elizabeth Gunson (Whangarei)

Samantha Charlton (Auckland)

Grace O’Hanlon (Auckland)

Elizabeth Thompson (Thames)

Stephanie Dickins (Āpiti)

Megan Hull (Pongaroa)

Elizabeth Keddell (Tauranga)

Kelsey Smith (Nelson)

Stacey Michelsen (Whangarei)

Julia King (Auckland)

Hope Ralph (Taranaki)

Tessa Jopp (Dunedin)

Holly Pearson (Taranaki)

Soccer

George Stanger (Dunblane, U.K.)

Clayton Lewis (Wellington)

Gianni Stensness (Northbridge, Australia)

Michael Woud (Auckland)

Winston Reid (Sønderborg, Denmark)

Liberato Cacace (Wellington)

Nando Pijnaker (Wellington)

Michael Boxall (Auckland)

Elijah Just (Wellington)

Joe Bell (Wellington)

Chris Wood (Hamilton)

Marko Stamenic (Wellington)

Joe Champness (Brisbane, Australia)

Callum McCowatt (Auckland)

Jamie Searle (Cambridge)

Dane Ingham (Lismore, Australia)

Callan Elliot (Nelson)

Ben Waine (Wellington)

Matthew Garbett (Porirua)

Sam Sutton (Wellington)

Ben Old (Wellington)

Alex Paulsen (Lower Hutt)

Marisa Van Der Meer (Christchurch)

Michaela Robertson (Wellington)

Erin Nayler (Takapuna)

Victoria Esson (Burnside)

Anna Leat (Arrowtown)

Catherine Bott (Wellington)

Meikayla Moore (Christchurch)

Ali Riley (Los Angeles, California)

Claudia Bunge (Auckland)

Ria Percival (Brentwood, U.K.)

Annalie Longo (Auckland)

Betsy Hassett (Auckland)

Katie Bowen (Auckland)

Daisy Wilson-Cleverley (Auckland)

Olivia Chance (Tauranga)

Hannah Wilkinson (Whangarei)

Paige Satchell (Rotorua)

Anna Green (Stockport, U.K.)

Abby Erceg (Auckland)

Gabi Rennie (Rangiora)

Emma Rolston (Auckland)

Elizabeth Anton (Auckland)

Gymnastics

Mikhail Koudinov (Auckland)

Dylan Schmidt (Auckland)

Maddie Davidson (Christchurch)

Rowing

Jordan Parry (Tauranga)

Jack Lopas (Christchurch)

Dan Williamson (Auckland)

Tom Mackintosh (Christchurch)

Phillip Wilson (Wellington)

Stephen Jones (Auckland)

Brooks Robertson (Nelson)

Chris Harris (College Estate)

Shaun Kirkham (Hamilton)

Hamish Bond (Dunedin)

Matt Macdonald (Auckland)

Michael Brake (Auckland)

Tom Murray (Blenheim)

Sam Bosworth (Waipara)

Hannah Osborne (Te Awamutu)

Georgia Nugent-O’Leary (Aramoho)

Emma Twigg (Napier)

Kerri Gowler (Raetihi)

Grace Prendergast (Christchurch)

Brooke Donoghue (Te Kauwhata)

Livie Loe (Christchurch)

Eve Macfarlane (Parnassus)

Ruby Tew (Wellington)

Ella Greenslade (Christchurch)

Emma Dyke (Invercargill)

Lucy Spoors (Christchurch)

Kelsey Bevan (Auckland)

Beth Ross (Auckland)

Rugby

Andrew Knewstubb (Wellington)

Ngarohi McGarvey-Black (Auckland)

Tone Ng-Shiu (Auckland)

Amanaki Nicole (Christchurch)

William Warbrick (Auckland)

Scott Curry (Rotorua)

Tim Mikkelson (Matamata)

Kurt Baker (North Palmerston)

Caleb Clarke (Auckland)

Dylan Collier (Auckland)

Sione Molia (Auckland)

Etene Nanai-Seturo (Pakuranga)

Regan Ware (Tokoroa)

Tevarn Webber (Tokoroa)

Dhys Faleafaga (Wellington)

Jazmin Hotham (Auckland)

Shiray Kaka (Auckland)

Mahina Paul (Whakatane)

Alena Saili (Wellington)

Tenika Willison (Hamilton)

Sarah Hirini (Feilding)

Kayla Ahki (Waitara)

Shakira Baker (Masterton)

Michaela Blyde (New Plymouth)

Kelly Brazier (Dunedin)

Gayle Broughton (Taranaki)

Theresa Fitzpatrick (Auckland)

Stacey Fluhler (Whakatāne)

Tyla Nathan-Wong (Auckland)

Risealeaana Pouri-Lane (Motueka)

Terina Te-Tamaki (Hamilton)

Ruby Tui (Wellington)

Portia Woodman (Kawakawa)

Sailing

Micah Wilkinson (Auckland)

Sam Meech (Tauranga)

Paul Snow-Hansen (Takapuna)

Daniel Willcox (Takapuna)

Peter Burling (Tauranga)

Andrew Tuke (Kawakawa)

Josh Junior (Wellington)

Erica Dawson (Auckland)

Alexandra Maloney (Auckland)

Molly Meech (Tauranga)

Shooting

Natalie Rooney (Waimate)

Chloe Tipple (Christchurch)

Surfing

Billy Stairmand (Auckland)

Ella Williams (Whangamata)

Swimming

Lewis Clareburt (Wellington)

Zac Reid (New Plymouth)

Erika Fairweather (Dunedin)

Ali Galyer (Auckland)

Hayley McIntosh (Whangārei)

Eve Thomas (Brisbane, Australia)

Carina Doyle (Auckland)

Taekwondo

Tom Burns (Christchurch)

Weightlifting

Cam McTaggart (Southport)

David Liti (Auckland)

Kanah Andrews-Nahu (Auckland)

Laurel Hubbard (Auckland)

Equestrian

Jesse Campbell (Marlborough, U.K.)

Tim Price (Rangiora)

Bruce Goodin (Huntly)

Tom Tarver-Priebe (Auckland)

Daniel Meech (Steinfeld, Germany)

Bundy Philpott (Cambridge)

Jonelle Price (Rangiora)

Uma O’Neill (Santa Cruz, California)

Golf

Ryan Fox (Auckland)

Bo-Gyung Ko (Orlando, Florida)

Karate

Andrea Anacan (Auckland)

Tennis

Marcus Daniell (New York, New York)

Michael Venus (London, U.K.)

Triathlon

Tayler Reid (Gisborne)

Hayden Wilde (Whakatāne)

Ainsley Thorpe (Auckland)

Nicole Van Der Kaay (Rotorua)

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“Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.”

~ Max Heindel Artwork: Leon Botha

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Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha is coming to Disrupt this fall

Roelof Botha’s career is the stuff dreams are made of — that is, if the dream is to become one of the topmost investors in the U.S. venture capital industry.

Not only has Botha had tremendous success in his investing career, including an early bet on the mobile payments company Square (on whose board he still sits five years after its IPO), but in 2017, Botha was made the U.S. head of the venture firm he first joined 17 years ago, Sequoia Capital.

Considering that Sequoia is widely considered the most powerful venture firm in the country, that’s quite a position to hold. In fact, on Forbes’s 2020 Midas List, Botha was ranked the third-best VC in the world, just two spots behind the number-one ranked investor. That person: Neil Shen, who is the founder and managing partner of  Sequoia Capital China. (Doug Leone is the firm’s global managing director.)

It’s because of Botha’s position and the insights that he brings to the role that we’re very pleased to announce that he is joining us this year at Disrupt 2020, which runs September 14 to September 16.

Certainly, there’s a lot to talk about. While Botha’s career has seemingly moved in one direction, he has lived through numerous economic ups and downs dating back more than 20 years and has seen what it takes to get through tough times.

When he first came to the U.S. from his native South Africa, it was as a former McKinsey consultant looking to nab an MBA from Stanford. He graduated just as the tech economy was imploding inn 2000, but he managed to connect with a fledgling payments startup, PayPal, joining as a director of corporate development before becoming its VP of finance and later its CFO.

A role at Sequoia Capital would follow, and a young Botha didn’t waste the opportunity. Instead, he led the firm’s investment in YouTube, sitting on its board before Google purchased the then 1.5-year-old startup in 2006 for what seemed at the time like an ungodly sum: $1.65 billion. (Last year, YouTube produced $15 billion in revenue for the company.)

It hasn’t all been a walk in the park. Today, in fact, Botha has portfolio companies that are facing an uphill battle. Eventbrite, for example, on whose board he sits, had to cut 45% of its staff last month because of the impact of COVID-19 on the events business.  Another of his portfolio companies, Bird, the buzzy micro-mobility company, has conducted its own mass layoffs as much of the U.S. remains at home in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus.

We’ll talk with Botha about how he’s advising these startups, as well as about his outlook for the broader venture industry. More specifically, we’ll discuss how startups strike a balance right now between continuing on their paths and succumbing to false optimism about how quickly the “black swan of 2020,” as Sequoia has described the coronavirus in a letter to its founders, is resolved.

If you care about the global shifts that are reshaping the tech industry right now, this is one conversation you won’t want to miss.

Disrupt 2020 runs September 14 to September 16 and we have several Digital Pass options to be part of the action or to exhibit virtually, which you can check out here.

We’ll be announcing more speakers over the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

(Editor’s Note: We’re watching the developing situation around the novel coronavirus very closely and will adapt as we go. You can find out the latest on our event schedule plans here.)

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Setting politics aside, Sequoia raises $3.4 billion for US and China investments

Noted Silicon Valley venture capital fund Sequoia Capital has raised nearly $1 billion for later-stage U.S. investments and roughly $2.4 billion for venture and growth deals in China, according to paperwork filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

The firm, famous for its investments in U.S. companies like Google, Instagram, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Snap and WhatsApp, is also an investor in some of China’s most successful startups.

These are companies like Alibaba, China’s e-commerce answer to Amazon; Ant Financial, a multibillion-dollar financial services powerhouse; JD.com, another e-commerce powerhouse; ByteDance, the owner of America’s latest social media sensation, TikTok; and Yitu, one of the national leaders in the development of machine learning applications.

These investments have not come without their share of controversy abroad. Yitu has been linked to the technology dragnet currently in place in Xinjiang, where an estimated 1 million religious and ethnic minorities are currently interned. Meanwhile, TikTok’s popularity in the U.S. has come with accusations of censorship in its treatment of posts that were supportive of both Xinjiang’s imprisoned population and the dissidents protesting mainland China’s increasing control over Hong Kong politics.

U.S. senators have already called for an investigation into TikTok, and Yitu was blacklisted by the U.S. Department of Commerce in October for its role in human rights violations in Xinjiang.

Setting politics aside, Sequoia has brought in $1.8 billion for its Sequoia Capital China Growth Fund V and about $550 million for Sequoia Capital China Venture Fund VII, per filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It’s a sign that when valuations are concerned (ByteDance alone is now worth $78 billion, according to some reports), investors can overlook the potential political pitfalls of dealing with China.

Sequoia, led by Doug Leone, Michael Moritz, Roelof Botha and others, recently sought $8 billion for a global fund, its largest-ever fundraise, holding a first close of $6 billion in June 2018. In addition, the firm operates Sequoia Capital India, with offices in Menlo Park, Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

News of the fund comes at the tail end of another strong year for venture capital fundraising in the U.S. Firms, including 41-year-old NEA, filed to raise as much as $3.6 billion for a single fund. Meanwhile, Norwest Venture Partners, DCVC and Accel all closed new vehicles exceeding $500 million.

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FAMOUS DIAMONDS

FAMOUS DIAMONDS

THE CULLINAN

Weight: 3106ct rough Origin: Transvaal, South Africa

The Cullinan, the largest gem quality diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine on 26th January 1905. The rough diamond was nearly flawless and named the Cullinan in honour of Sir Thomas Cullinan, the founder of the Premier Mine, who was visiting that very day. Louis Botha, premier of the Transvaal, persuaded his government to buy the diamond for approx. US $1 million and presented it to England’s King Edward VII as a token of thanks for granting Transvaal its own constitution.

The Cullinan was handed to Amsterdam’s House of Asscher to polish. The diamond was divided into 9 major gemstones, 96 smaller stones and about 19.5cts of unpolished pieces. The two largest gems were kept for England’s regalia and the rest went to Asscher as payment. King Edward bought one of the major gems for his consort, Queen Alexandra. The Transvaal government bought the remaining stones and pieces, and presented the other 6 major gems to Queen Mary in 1910. Two of the small stones were presented to Louis Botha, who gave one to his daughter when she turned 17.

THE EUREKA

Weight: 10.73ct polished, one of two diamonds cut from 21.25ct of rough Shape: Oval Brilliant Colour: Yellow Clarity: Unknown Origin: Northern Cape, South Africa

The Eureka was discovered per chance by a 15-year-old boy, Erasmus Jacobs, on the south bank of the Orange River near Hopetown, Kimberley in 1867 and later handed it to his neighbour, farmer Schalk van Niekerk, who was a collector of unusual stones. Van Niekerk entrusted the stone to John O’Reilly, a travelling peddler, who sent it in an unsealed envelope to Dr. W.G. Atherstone of Grahamstown, one of the few people who knew anything about minerals and gems. Dr. Atherstone identified the stone as a 21.25ct brownish-yellow diamond and was sold to Sir Phillip Wodehouse for GBP 1,500.

CULLINAN I, STAR OF AFRICA

Weight: 47.75ct polished, 83.50ct rough Shape: Pear Shape Brilliant Colour: Unrecorded Clarity: Unrecorded Origin: Zandfontein Farm, South Africa

At 530.20 carats the Cullinan I, or Star of Africa diamond is the largest cut diamond in the world. Pear shaped, with 74 facets, it is set in the Royal sceptre (kept with the other crown jewels in the Tower of London). It was cut from the 3,106 carat Cullinan, the largest diamond crystal ever found. The Cullinan was discovered by Frederick Wells, a mine superintendent in Transvaal, South Africa in 1895 on an inspection tour of the Premier Mine. The Cullinan was cut by Joseph Asscher and Company of Amsterdam, who examined the enormous crystal for around six months before determining how to divide it. It eventually yielded nine major and 96 smaller brilliant-cut stones. When the Cullinan was first discovered, certain signs suggested that it could have been part of a much larger crystal, but no discovery of the ‘missing half’ has ever been authenticated.

HOPE DIAMOND

Weight: 45.52ct Shape: Oval Brilliant Colour: Dark Blue Clarity: Reported Flawless Origin: Unknown but believed to originate from India

Widely considered the most famous diamond in the world, the Hope Diamond receives its name from Henry Thomas Hope and was discovered centuries ago in the southern region of India. Long before the fabled bad luck associated with its owners, the Hope Diamond has an illustrious history. It was believed to have a great mystical power that surrounded this unusual size and unique colour, a deep indigo blue. The Hope was reputedly used to adorn the statue of a Hindu idol.

In 1642, the famous Blue Tavernier Diamond from Europe was in the hands of King Louis XIV who had it cut to bring out its brilliance. Later, the diamond was discovered stolen during the French Revolution. For many decades, the Hope Diamond could not be found. It was rumoured, according to legend, jewellers and thieves had previously acquired the stone. Some say, those who owned the blue stone, had some kind of back luck associated with them wherever they went.

At the turn of the century, in 1911, the diamond was purchased by a young American socialite heiress named Evalyn Walsh McLean who bought the Hope Diamond from Cartier for US$185,000. This gift was given to Evalyn by her husband Ned, who owned the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquire newspapers. After time, Evalyn became convinced that the true power of the Hope Diamond came from the joy and awe which filled the faces of those who gazed upon it. Mrs McLean was the longest private owner and she owned the diamond for 36 years until her death in 1947.

Harry Winston purchased the Hope Diamond from her estate in 1949, and 9 years later it was given to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

THE EXCELSIOR

Weight: 995.2ct rough Origin: Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa

Probably the second largest stone ever found. A high clarity, blue-white stone, found in 1893 by a South African mine worker who picked it out of a shovel full of gravel. Due to its irregular shape, it was cut into 21 polished stones, of which the largest is a marquise of 69.80 carats. A smaller, 18 carat marquise stone cut from the Excelsior was displayed at the 1939 World’s Fair by De Beers.

The shape of the stone was out of the ordinary: flat on one side and rose to a peak on the other, somewhat like a loaf of rye bread. It is believed that this is what inspired the diamond to be named ‘Excelsior’, meaning higher.

THE STAR OF SIERRA LEONE

Weight: 968.90ct rough Origin: Yengema, Sierra Leone

Discovered on 14th February 1972, the Star of Sierra Leone is the third largest rough diamond discovered, and the largest alluvial gen diamond ever found. Harry Winston purchased the rough diamond in October 1972, but it was not cut until August 1973. The diamond was originally cut into a 143.02ct Emerald cut, but upon close examination it revealed inclusions. The diamond was recut into seven smaller stones, the largest of which weighs 32.52ct.

THE GOLDEN JUBILEE

Weight: 545.67ct polished Colour: Yellow

The Golden Jubilee is the largest faceted diamond in the world, weighing 545.67 carats. Gabi Tolkowsky, who also designed the 273.85 carat Centenary Diamond, designed the stone. The Golden Jubilee was purchased from De Beers by a syndicate of Thai business men, and presented to the King of Thailand in 1997 for his Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of his coronation.

INCOMPARABLE

Weight: 407,48ct rough Origin: Mbuji Mayi District, Democratic Republic of Congo

Weighing 407.48 carats, the Incomparable is the third largest diamond ever cut, surpassed only by the Cullinan 1 and the Golden Jubilee. The stone is remarkable for its internally flawless clarity, its unusual triangular shape, called a ‘triolette’, and its fancy brownish-yellow colour.

The Incomparable was discovered in the Mbuji Mayi district of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as Zaire), almost a decade before the Millennium Star was discovered in the same region.

CENTENARY DIAMOND

Weight: 273.85ct polished, 599ct rough Shape: Pear Shape Colour: D Clarity: Flawless Origin: Premier Mine, South Africa

The Centenary was found on 17th July 1986 by the electric X-ray recovery system at the Premier Mine. Only a handful of people knew about it and all were sworn to silence. In its rough form it resembled an irregular matchbox with angular planes, a prominent elongated horn jutting out at one corner and a deep concave on the largest flat surface. The shape of the stone expressed problems in cutting with no apparent solution.

De Beers unveiled the Centenary Diamond, the world’s second largest modern-cut flawless diamond, on the company’s 100th birthday in 1988. At 273.85 carats, this stone is remarkable for its numerous facets: 164 on the stone and 83 on the girdle. The stone was cut from a 599ct flawless rough diamond and was found in the renowned De Beers Group Premier Mine, birthplace to many other famous diamonds such as the Cullinan and the Heart of Eternity. The Centenary is the largest modern fancy cut diamond in the world and the only one to combine the oldest methods – such as kerfing – with the most sophisticated modern technology in cutting.

THE JUBILEE

Weight: 245.35ct polished, 650.80ct rough Shape: Cushion Cut Colour: E Clarity: VVS2 Origin: Free State, South Africa (Originally known as the Orange Free State)

The Jubilee Diamond was discovered by workers in the Jagersfontein Mine in 1895 and weighed 650.80ct rough. Initially named the Reitz Diamond, at the time it was the world’s second largest known diamond. Currently, it is the sixth largest diamond ever discovered. The diamond was cut into two large diamonds of exceptional colour, clarity and brilliance. The larger of the two diamonds was named the Jubilee in honour of the sixteenth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation. A consortium of London diamond merchants comprising the firms of Wernher, Beit & Co., Barnato Bros. and Mosenthal Sons & Co. acquired the Jubilee together with the Excelsior.

THE DE BEERS

Weight: 234.65ct Origin: De Beers Mine, Kimberley South Africa

Not long after the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in March 1888, a huge light yellow octahedral crystal was found in the De Beers Mine. The gem weighed 428.50 old carats (old carats being the pre-1913 non-metric carat) and measured 47.6 mm through its longest axis and 38.1 mm square. Excluding Victoria, aka the Great White or Jacob, the source of which remains doubtful, the De Beers was the largest diamond found at the four mines at Kimberley during that time period.

Weighing 234.65 carats, the De Beers is the seventh largest faceted diamond in the world, not including the Nizam, a now-lost stone which is said to have been only partially cut. It isn’t known where the De Beers was cut, but because of its pre-eminence as a cutting centre at the time it is very likely that the work was carried out in Amsterdam.

After its display in Paris, the Maharaja of Patiala bought the De Beers. In 1928 Cartier of Paris set it as the centrepiece of a ceremonial necklace that came to be known as the Patiala Necklace. Sometime during the 1930′s the diamond was acquired by its present owners who loaned it in 1973 for an exhibition in Israel.

THE MILLENNIUM STAR

Weight: 203.04ct polished, 777ct rough

A near perfect diamond, weighing a magical 777 carats in the rough, falls into the hands of an alluvial digger from a small village. He approaches a De Beers diamond buyer stationed nearby and sells the magical stone. After several years of deliberation, the cut is decided, yielding 203.04 carats of stunning, internally and externally flawless pear-shaped stone. It is the second largest faceted D-Flawless diamond in the world; the 273.15 carat Centenary Diamond is the first. The Millennium Star is arguably the most beautiful diamond in the world, and one which experts have declared priceless.

The Millennium Star is the centrepiece of the company’s Limited Edition Millennium Diamonds collection, which further consists of 11 highly unusual blue diamond’s cut into a variety of shapes, having a total weight of 118 carats.

THE JONKER

Weight: 142.90ct polished, 726ct rough Origin: Elandsfontein, Pretoria South Africa

Discovered on 16th January 1934 by Mr. Jonker, this diamond was sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for the equivalent of US $700,000. The rough diamond yielded 12 beautiful stones, the largest of which is name the Jonker and weighs 142.90ct.

THE PREMIER ROSE

Weight: 137.02ct polished, 353.9ct rough Shape: Pear Shape Colour: D Clarity: Flawless Origin: Premier Mine, South Africa

Weighing 137.02 carats, the Premier Rose is one of the largest D-colour flawless diamonds in the world. In March 1978 the Premier Mine in South Africa, the mine that produced the 1,306 carat Cullinan Diamond, yielded yet another remarkable diamond, triangular-shaped cleavage of the finest colour, weighing 353.9 carats. Like an earlier gem found at the Premier, the Niarchos, this one too travelled right through the various stages of mining recovery only to emerge at the final one, the grease table in the recovery plant.

THE TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND

Weight: 128.54ct polished, 287.42ct rough Shape: Cushion Cut Colour: Yellow Origin: Kimberley, South Africa

The Tiffany Yellow Diamond, one of the largest fancy yellow diamonds ever discovered. It weighed 287.42ct in the rough when discovered in 1878 in the Kimberley mine in South Africa, and was cut into a cushion shape of 128.54cts with 90 facets – 32 more than a traditional round brilliant – to maximize its brilliance. It appears in the ‘Bird on a Rock’, a setting designed in the early 1960s by Jean Schlumberger, loaned by Tiffany & Co., New York.

THE NIARCHOS DIAMOND

Weight: 128.25ct polished, 426.5ct rough Shape: Pear Shape

The diamond weighed 426.5 carats, was internally flawless, but was slightly chipped, probably due to contact with the mine’s underground crusher. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer considered that it possessed the most perfect colour of any diamond he had seen, an opinion shared by others who were fortunate enough to view it. In due course, the unnamed diamond was shipped to London and in February of 1956 it was announced by the Diamond Trading Company that a sale of rough diamonds totalling GBP 3,000,000 had been made to the firm of Harry Winston Inc. of New York. At the time this transaction represented the largest single sale ever made to one of its clients.

Ultimately it yielded a pear shape weighing 128.25 carats, possessing 58 facets, plus 86 facets around the girdle, totalling 144. On February 27th, 1957, the ‘Ice Queen’, as de Haan had nicknamed it, was unveiled to the world. The April 1958 edition of National Geographic magazine featured an article on diamonds, in which the Niarchos’ cutting process was shown.

Soon after, the late Stavros Niarchos, the Greek shipping magnate, bought the gem for his then wife, formerly Charlotte Ford, for a reported US $2,000,000. Members of the Ford family were not polite, referring to the diamond as ‘the Skating Rink’, but Niarchos remained unperturbed, having also bought the two other gems that had been fashioned from the original 426-carat rough. For that amount, and after they were divorced, he was surely entitled to bestow his name upon the diamond which he generously lent to many exhibitions. In 1966 the Niarchos returned to South Africa for the famous centennial ‘Jewel Box 1966′ exhibition. Since his death in April of 1996, no further information about the Niarchos Diamond has been forthcoming.

THE KOH-I-NOOR

Weight: 108.93ct rough Shape: Brilliant Cut Colour: Unrecorded Clarity: Unrecorded Origin: India

This diamond was discovered around the 13th Century, but only received the name Koh-I-Noor in 1739 when a Persian conqueror, Nadir Shah, took Delhi and acquired the diamond. He named it Koh-I-Noor meaning ‘Mountain of Light’. The diamond was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 and weighed 186ct. In 1852 it was cut into a Round Brilliant weighing 108.93ct. The diamond has been used in the crowns of various Kings and Queens, and is currently on display in the Tower of London.

THE GREAT MOGUL

Weight: approx. 793ct rough

The diamond was discovered in the 17th Century. It was named after Shah Jehan who built the Taj Mahal. Its current location remains unknown.

THE TAYLOR BURTON

Weight: 69.42ct polished, 240.80ct rough Origin: Premier Mine

By far the best known of Richard Burton’s purchases was the 69.42 carat pear-shape, later to be called the Taylor-Burton Diamond. It was cut from a rough stone weighing 240.80 carats found in the Premier Mine in 1966 and subsequently bought by Harry Winston. After the rough piece of 240.80 carats arrived in New York, Harry Winston and his cleaver, Pastor Colon Jr. studied it for six months. Markings were made, erased and redrawn to show where the stone could be cleaved. There came the day appointed for the cleaving, and in this instance the usual tension that surrounds such an operation was increased by the heat and glare of the television lights that had been allowed into the workroom. After he had cleaved the stone, the 50-year-old cleaver said nothing – he reached across the workbench for the piece of diamond that had separated from it and looked at it through his horn-rimmed glasses for a fraction of a second before exclaiming ‘Beautiful!’. This piece of rough weighed 78 carats was expected to yield a stone of about 24 carats, while the large piece, weighing 162 carats, was destined to produce a pear shape whose weight had originally been expected to be about 75 carats.

THE KIMBERLEY

Weight: 55.09ct polished (previously 70ct polished) Cut: Step Cut Origin: Kimberley, South Africa

A flawless, 70-carat, step cut, champagne-coloured diamond that was found in the Kimberley Mine, South Africa. It was recut into this modern shape in 1921 from a large, flat stone that was once in the Russian Crown Jewels. In 1958, the stone was again recut by its owners, Baumgold Bros., New York City, to improve the proportions and increase brilliancy. It now weighs 55.09carats and is valued by the firm at US $500,000, but is probably worth considerably more. Baumgold Bros. sold the stone in 1971 to an undisclosed collector.

HEART OF ETERNITY

Weight: 27.64ct polished

This 27.64 carat heart-shaped stone is renowned for the intensity of its colour, described by experts as ‘vivid blue’. The Heart of Eternity was one of 11 rare blue diamond’s unveiled to the world in January 2000 as part of a special collection of De Beers Millennium Jewels. This collection, which also featured the famous Millennium Star, was gathered by the De Beers Group over many years to celebrate the new millennium.

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Una elefanta moribunda se venga de un cazador profesional aplastándolo hasta la muerte

 Tras ser herida de muerte, una elefanta moribunda atrapa a un cazador profesional y lo aplasta hasta matarlo.

Theunis Botha, de 51 años, hirió de muerte a una elefanta, tras lo cual él y sus compañeros de caza fueron atacados en Gwai, Zimbabue.

La hembra moribunda logró atrapar con su trompa a Botha antes de derrumbarse y caer sobre el cazador, aplastándolo hasta matarlo.

El grupo estaba dando un paseo cuando se encontró con una manada de cuatro elefantes, una madre y sus crías. Los cazadores les dispararon a las tres crías. Luego, el cuarto elefante los atacó por un costado.

Theunis Botha, de 51 años, hirió de muerte a una elefanta, tras lo cual él y sus compañeros de caza fueron atacados en Gwai, Zimbabue. Fuente: Facebook

Botha dirigía junto a su esposa una compañía de caza mayor llamada Theunis Botha’s Big Game Safaris and Hounds. Fuente: Facebook.

Botha llevaba de caza a empresarios. Fuente: Facebook.

Los amigos y la familia han rendido tributo al padre de cinco niños, pero los críticos de la caza mayor calificaron su muerte como una cuestión de “puro karma”.

“Deberían llorar por ese elefante inocente que fue asesinado sin motivo, no por este cazador idiota que merecía el castigo que recibió”, escribió un hombre.

“Que descansen en paz solo los elefantes… Justicia poética por una vez en la vida en un mundo cruel e injusto”, comentó otro.

Botha dirigía junto a su esposa una compañía de caza mayor llamada Theunis Botha’s Big Game Safaris and Hounds.

Estos sudafricanos se especializaban en safaris de caza mayor y usualmente llevaban a extranjeros ricos a cazar leones, leopardos y otros animales.

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