Alfred Lin / Sequoia Capital

**Alfred Lin** is the Managing Partner at **Sequoia Capital**, ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List two years running. He led Sequoia's investment in OpenAI at a $14B valuation — one of the most consequential VC bets in history. Before venture capital, Alfred was COO and CFO of **Zappos**, where he helped scale the company from startup to its $1.2B acquisition by Amazon. He immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan as a child and met Tony Hsieh at Harvard, beginning a decades-long partnership.