Shan Maguire

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  PhD in Physics from Caltech; MS in Statistics from Stanford University; BS in Mathematics from University of Southern California

• Current Position

  General Partner at Sequoia Capital

• Investment Focus

  SpaceX, The Boring Company, X, xAI, Lightmatter

• Previous Employers

  Google (GV), DARPA

• Notable Achievement

  Co-founded Expanse, acquired for $1 billion

Timeline

• Expanse, the cybersecurity company co-founded by Maguire, is acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $1 billion. (Source: Web search results)

  2020-11-01

• Maguire publicly posts on X questioning if he should share his story regarding being denied a promotion at Google for being a white man. (Source: Web search results)

  2023-12-16

• Maguire criticizes Google's internal culture on X, describing the company as a 'trash can dumpster fire.' (Source: Web search results)

  2024-02-23

• Chamath Palihapitiya cites Maguire's experiences with promotion quotas at Google during All-In Podcast Episode 168 to argue for the abolishment of HR departments. (Source: Document dc653a59-1711-437d-95cf-b5b07878217e)

  2024-02-29

Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, revolutionary, statesman, and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China (ROC) and its first political party, the Kuomintang (KMT). As the paramount leader of the 1911 Revolution, Sun is credited with overthrowing the Qing dynasty and served as the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912) and as the inaugural premier of the Kuomintang. Born to a peasant family in Guangdong, Sun was educated overseas in Hawaii and returned to China to graduate from medical school in Hong Kong. He led underground anti-Qing revolutionaries in South China, the United Kingdom, and Japan as one of the Four Bandits and rose to prominence as the founder of multiple resistance movements, including the Revive China Society and the Tongmenghui. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern China, and his political life campaigning against Manchu rule in favor of a Chinese republic featured constant struggles and frequent periods of exile. After the success of the 1911 Revolution, Sun proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of China but had to relinquish the presidency to general Yuan Shikai who controlled the powerful Beiyang Army, ultimately going into exile in Japan. He later returned to launch a revolutionary government in southern China to challenge the warlords who controlled much of the country following Yuan's death in 1916. In 1923, Sun invited representatives of the Communist International to Guangzhou to reorganize the KMT and formed the First United Front with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He did not live to see his party unify the country under his successor, Chiang Kai-shek, in the Northern Expedition. While residing in Beijing, Sun died of gallbladder cancer in 1925. Uniquely among 20th-century Chinese leaders, Sun is revered in both Taiwan (where he is officially the "Father of the Nation") and in the People's Republic of China (where he is officially the "Forerunner of the Revolution") for his instrumental role in ending Qing rule and overseeing the conclusion of the Chinese dynastic system. His political philosophy, known as the Three Principles of the People, sought to modernise China by advocating for nationalism, democracy, and the livelihood of the people in an ethnically harmonious union (Zhonghua minzu). The philosophy is commemorated as the National Anthem of the Republic of China, which Sun composed.

Web Search Results

• Shaun Maguire

  Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. At Sequoia he led our investments into SpaceX, The Boring Company, X, xAI, AMP Robotics, Bridge, Decart, Eon, Factory, Neros, Vise, Lightmatter and others. Prior to Sequoia, Shaun co-founded Expanse, a cybersecurity company that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $1B. Shaun has also held positions at GV and DARPA. Shaun earned a BS in Mathematics from the University of Southern California, an MS in Statistics from Stanford University, an MS in [...] Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech and a PhD in Physics from Caltech. [...] Skip to Content SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE ### Shaun Maguire General Partner Sequoia Capital

• Lessons from Shaun Maguire - Antoine Buteau

  18. Shaun Maguire: Sequoia's Internal Processes | Identifying excellency | Double Down On Israel | Ep.1 - YouTube 19. “Bigger than Wiz”: Sequoia's Shaun Maguire says Israel can build trillion-dollar companies 20. Storied Bay Area venture firm stays completely silent on partner's controversy - SFGATE 21. Shaun Maguire - Wikipedia 22. Sequoia VC Shaun Maguire Keeps Pushing Mamdani 'Islamist' Claims - Forbes [...] 8. Shaun Maguire: Why The Next Era of Tech Will Outshine the Internet Boom - YouTube 9. Shaun Maguire: This Is Far Bigger Than The Internet Boom - The Limitless Podcast 10. Investing in Outliers | Shaun Maguire, Partner at Sequoia - YouTube 11. Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App. 12. Shaun Maguire of Sequoia Capital on Why the Golden Age is Imminent | 2025 Upfront Summit - YouTube [...] 1. Shaun Maguire | Sequoia Capital 2. Shaun Maguire - Forbes 3. Lessons from Academia, Entrepreneurship, and Investing featuring Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital) - YouTube 4. Seven Questions with Shaun Maguire | Sequoia Capital 5. Seven Questions with Shaun Maguire 6. A Conversation With Shaun Maguire - Venture In The Capital 2025 - YouTube 7. Essential Advice for Founders | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia Capital - YouTube

• Shaun Maguire

  21. ^ Maguire, Shaun [@shaunmmaguire] (2025-07-04). "Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything It's literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda The West will learn this lesson the hard way" (Tweet "Tweet (social media)")) – via Twitter. [...] 7. ^ a b "Shaun Maguire: Positions, Relations and Network - MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2025-08-12. 8. ^ Silverman, Jacob (2025-07-22). "The metamorphosis of Shaun Maguire". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-10-27. 9. ^ a b c Au-Yeung, Angel. "The Sequoia Investor Whose Anti-Mamdani Posts Set Off a Silicon Valley Storm". WSJ. Retrieved 2025-07-09. 10. ^ "Shaun Maguire". Heritage Project. Retrieved 2025-08-12. [...] 26. ^ "Shaun Maguire's racist remarks about Zohran Mamdani ignite social media outrage: 'Comes from a culture that lies'". Indiatimes. 2025-07-06. Retrieved 2025-07-06. 27. ^ "Sequoia Partner Maguire's Posts on Mamdani Spark Founder Petition". Retrieved Sep 18, 2025. 28. ^ Murray, Conor. "Sequoia VC Shaun Maguire Keeps Pushing Mamdani 'Islamist' Claims". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-07-09.

• Shaun Maguire - Heritage Project

  MAGUIRE: I think someone doing theoretical work in what I call "hard" fields—a PhD student doing theoretical work in pure math, or in quantum gravity, or high energy physics, or whatever, those are really hard areas to do original work. There's so much prerequisite knowledge, it takes so long to get to the point where you can actually make a contribution. It took a long time. It was basically learning, reading papers, talking to lots of people, going to group meetings for a long time. It took a [...] MAGUIRE: My job title is I'm a general partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia is a 50 year old venture capital firm based in Menlo Park—one of the preeminent venture capital firms in the world that backed, in their early days, Apple, Atari, Cisco, Oracle, companies like that. In more recent memory, companies like Stripe, Zoom, Instagram, YouTube, ByteDance in China which created TikTok and many, many other companies across consumer enterprise, hardware, and all these things. [...] MAGUIRE: One of the things that I am proud of in my own life is I've been willing to change course quickly even with limited data when crazy opportunities come up. So, I really love academia. I love Caltech, etc. I think I will definitely have more involvement with Caltech at some point in my life. I don't know what shape or form that will take. I'll trust my instincts when something comes up. With the literature, I am really, really busy. So, I don't stay up perfectly, but I do try to stay up

• Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) / Posts / X - Twitter

  I recommend watching the full conversation between Trump and Zelensky before forming strong opinions (This is true for any situation) Image 18 From Collin Rugg 2.8K 11K 65K 8.8M Image 19 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Feb 23, 2024 Fuck it, This happened at Google That company is an absolute trash can dumpster fire Quote Image 20 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Dec 16, 2023 Should I go public with the story about the time I was told I can’t be promoted for being a white man? [...] Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) / X Don’t miss what’s happening People on X are the first to know. Log in Sign up 2.6K 9.7K 67K 6.6M Image 9 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Sep 10 We’re not supposed to say this But the truth is we’re at War 1.6K 5K 68K 2M Image 10 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Oct 13, 2024 POV @SpaceX catching a rocket Image 11 1.1K 13K 66K 4.4M Image 12 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Sep 11 [...] Of all the videos of people celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk This one hits me the hardest To celebrate this quickly means he had pre-computed this possibility, the celebration was instinctual It’s like he fantasized over this Image 13 From SafetySwipe 5.6K 11K 65K 15M Image 14 Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire · Jul 14, 2024 I have extremely high respect for people that are willing to change their minds as new data comes in Huge respect for @BillAckman Quote Image 15