Roelof Botha has spent over 20 years building companies in Silicon Valley. He began within the walls of nascent PayPal, where he joined in March 2000 while completing his MBA at Stanford. He became CFO in 2001 and led the company through both its IPO in early 2002 and the subsequent acquisition by eBay.

Roelof joined Sequoia Capital in 2003 to help founders build enduring businesses. He leads the US/Europe business as Managing Partner and serves as Senior Steward of the global Sequoia Partnership. Roelof is a Director of 23andMe, Bird, Ethos, Evernote, Inside.com, Landis, mmhmm, MongoDB, Natera, Pendulum Therapeutics, Square, and Unity Technologies. Previously, he was a Director of companies that include YouTube, Tumblr, Xoom, AssureX, and Eventbrite. He also led Sequoia's investment in Instagram.

Venture Trailblazers is presented by VC Lab, the leading venture capital accelerator for emerging managers worldwide, and Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. 

This event is strictly invite-only, and reserved for the VC Lab networking: including those who have applied to VC Lab Cohort 9, current partners in the accelerator and alumni. 

VC Lab (https://GoVCLab.com) is a virtual program that helps new managers to launch accelerators, pre-seed, seed or Series A venture capital firms globally. The goal of the program is to complete a close in six months or less. The program provides a supportive community, tactical advice and fund-building resources. Completing the program and the close requires approximately 25 hours per week of structured fund-building work.

Participants work with the VC Lab team in Silicon Valley to build a top decile venture capital fund. Each week, a curriculum focuses on critical fund-building activities, such as building a deal warehouse and developing a closing funnel for limited partners. There are two weekly sessions with experts, including experienced general partners, active limited partners and back office professionals. Participants share best practices and get quick answers to operational questions in a private Slack community with hundreds of general partners throughout the world. The program also offers opportunities for exposure in events like these.

Learn more and apply to Cohort 9 at https://FI.co/apply/vc.