Adapting to Endure

I just finished reading Sequoia’s Founder All Hands presentation titled “Adapting to Endure”. It was a good one.

I haven’t been working long enough to see the last downturn so I have been reading and learning as much as I can. The presentation did an amazing job bringing decades of experience and anecdotes to the current situation at hand.

As expected, Sequoia is predicting that this is not a short-term downturn and we are headed for some rough times ahead. As such, founders need to be preparing themselves, their team, and their company for what is about to happen.

There are countless tidbits of great info, but the biggest takeaway I had was to play for the long-term. We need to weather the short-term storm, but have a much longer-term view in terms of our investments. I will be adjusting my planning accordingly.

There’s a lot of work to be done here at Secfi. We have a strong team, but some difficult days ahead of us. It could be the other way around, so I’m grateful.