John Thimsen

Clozd provides world-class technology and services for win-loss analysis. We deliver detailed and unbiased feedback directly from your buyers—so you can improve your sales win rate, build better products, strengthen your competitive advantage, and consistently uncover the real reasons you win and lose business.

This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.

Techquity is a collective of senior talent from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other hyperscale tech companies. We have designed, engineered, and managed iconic products like: Amazon Alexa, Kindle and Prime Video; Google Maps and YouTube: the Oura ring: Microsoft XBox Live. We have built multiple billion-dollar businesses, invented new tech and products, and led many startups to successful exits. Over our careers, we made thousands of investment decisions and detailed assessments of technology, products, systems and teams. We have interviewed thousands of tech leaders and built high performance teams of 5 to 5,000. Our hard-won expertise enables us to help companies and investors build great teams, navigate hard technology decisions and fix existential technology issues to create breakout successes.

Clozd provides world-class technology and services for win-loss analysis. We deliver detailed and unbiased feedback directly from your buyers—so you can improve your sales win rate, build better products, strengthen your competitive advantage, and consistently uncover the real reasons you win and lose business.

Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders. Investing for over 30 years in machine learning, AI, marketplaces, infra, devops, and biotech startups.

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.

This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.