# Luciana Lixandru

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Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Accel, on how to spot global winners among local champions

“It’s very difficult to spot an outlier in the early days. At series A, outliers are not obvious. If you go towards group decision making, you can miss some of these outliers.” In this week’s episode of This Much I Know, Carlos is joined by Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Accel, the top-tier US fund …

13: How to learn to stop worrying and love failure

This week we're talking about when it all goes wrong: how to embrace failure, or at least learn from your mistakes. Emma and Zak are joined by Black Box Thinking author Matthew Syed and Luciana Lixandru from Accel to learn about failing gracefully - and what James Dyson and David Beckham have in …

The European Start-Up Community: Luciana Lixandru, Sequoia Capital

In today's episode of Now, Then, Ten, Brent welcomes Luciana Lixandru to the podcast, who was newly appointed to be the first European partner at the world-class venture capital firm Sequoia Capital in 2020. Sequoia Capital has backed some of the top community-driven companies such as Airbnb, Uber,…

Why Sequoia came to Europe, with Sequoia Partner Matt Miller

In this episode of This Much I Know, Carlos Espinal is joined by Matt Miller, a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Matt started his entrepreneurial journey at a young age, first as an avocado seller and eventually when he took two years off university to work on a restaurant tech product. Today, he helps …

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia

Luciana Lixandru is a Partner @ Sequoia, one of the world's most renowned and successful venture firms with Sequoia-backed companies accounting for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value. As for Luciana, at Sequoia she has led investments in the likes of PennyLane, Xentral, Veed and Ledgy to name …

20VC: 13 of the Great Investing Minds on When to Pay Up vs When To Remain Disciplined and Walk Because the Price is too High: The Ultimate Guide to Price Sensitivity

Marcelo Claure is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and led some of the world's most iconic businesses. He is currently the Chairman & CEO of Claure Capital, a newly founded multi-billion-dollar global investment firm. Before this, Marcelo was COO @ Softbank Group, the world's largest …

UiPath ft. Daniel Dines - From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs

The biggest enterprise software company to come out of Europe in the last decade didn’t come from London, Paris, Berlin or Stockholm—but Bucharest, Romania.  UiPath, founded in 2005 and originally called DeskOver, was a scrappy handful of engineers bootstrapping out of an apartment in Bucharest fo…

How to build a $100bn company in Europe, with Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru

This week it’s another special episode recorded live at the Sifted Summit, with host Amy sitting down with Sequoia Capital’s Luciana Lixandru. Luciana, who established the legendary Silicon Valley firm's presence in Europe in 2020, discusses the continent’s “Act Two”, and ambitions to build $100bn …