In all the classical physics, optics, Newtonian mechanics, etc., and classical electromagnetism, that didn't make any sense. Another example would be: in quantum there's a guy, Yakir Aharonov, as in the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Can you make time for me?" Lenny Susskind, but actually really, based on a lot of John's ideas as well. Where do you see some really new directions? It's funny because John has a veryit's maybe not the style you would think. The professors at USC told me I should graduate and go somewhere better, so I went up to Stanford and started grad school there, actually in the statistics department. With the literature, I am really, really busy. That happened in the early 90s. Shaun Maguire - The Montgomery Summit Maguire is a former graduate assistant at Texas A&M, were he was working under his FSU coach Jimbo Fisher. This firewall paradox really sharply showed that quantum information will play a fundamental role in resolving, in terms of understanding the nuance between general relativity and quantum mechanics, just in a really sharp way. Sequoia Capital: "Crypto is one of the two big sectors of the next 10 ZIERLER: [laughs] Shaun, let's establish now some context. I don't even really remember. I was doing all three. MAGUIRE: It was simply in having a stronger math background than some people. Now at this point I'm maybe a 25 year old or something, I think was when I was coming back to Caltech. I would say a bunch of the other prominent, early investors were really more coming from the technical side. It's not talked about that way, but Shockley Semiconductor was originally a division of Beckman Instruments. Let me tell you, that's one of the lessons of studying either quantum mechanics or general relativity: your instincts are oftentimes wrong, so you have to actually go do the calculations. Sequoia is a 50 year old venture capital firm based in Menlo Parkone of the preeminent venture capital firms in the world that backed, in their early days, Apple, Atari, Cisco, Oracle, companies like that. I have a degree from Stanford. He had founded this tiny little department called Control and Dynamical Systems. The day after you defend, are you not looking at postdocs? It was a tiny department. Sequoia Capital's New Crypto Fund - video Dailymotion You want him to respect you; you don't want to disappoint him. And some of these founders dont even understand where it comes from, or how deeply ingrained it is in them. I could go on and on. At Sequoia, we have a lot of these flywheels, if I'm honest. So, I didn't really know anyone at Sequoia, but I was getting recruited by other firms. Harry Maguire: What happened? - The Athletic ZIERLER: And when does Sequoia enter into the mix? There's so much prerequisite knowledge, it takes so long to get to the point where you can actually make a contribution. It was purely just my curiosity. Shaun Maguire's Investing Profile - Sequoia Capital Partner | Signal I had never seen one of these. I think these are actually wormholes, and that's a huge point of disagreement. As crypto continues its wild rise, storied venture firm Sequoia is not just competing with the a16zs of the world but with a rising crop of crypto native venture funds that are seeing their assets balloon and their influence upend the traditional venture hierarchies. The Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire. At Caltech there was this guy, Jerry MarsdenJerrold Marsdenwho is an absolute legend in space physics. The only firm that we never pitched was Sequoia, because they had a competing portfolio company, so we didn't want to give them the data on our company or something about us. I literally couldn't sleep as a kid, I would just think about special relativity. I viewed that field, the stuff that John was working on, as the absolute top of physics, and I didn't think I had the background yet to be in that world. Alexei is really introverted. There's been a bunch of these big ideas that the whole field is unpacking with the goal being to understand nature in a much deeper way. Seven Questions with Shaun Maguire - Sequoia Capital He also serves as Chairman and Advisor at Vise. I am, not quite as much as you, but I'm also a student of history, and I've been a student of Valley history. Do we live in a many worlds thing? Shaun Maguire (PhD '18), Quantum Researcher and Venture Capitalist The Wire Digital is helping global businesses make smarter decisions. Patrick called Sequoia and told them they should hire me instead. There's always more to learn, so I'm always playing catch-up. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern . In many ways was the core person that drove it in the beginning, if not the core person. ZIERLER: Shaun, do you have a sense of the origin story of Sequoiawhat niche it was looking to fill when it started? Shaun, for the last part of our talk, just one retrospective question and then one going forward. Prior to GV, Shaun co-founded two companies: Qadium and Escape Dynamics. It's actually breaking in some ways right now via Apple. Shaun to start, will you please tell me your title and institutional affiliation? Alexei is not going to just go hang out in the hallway at the blackboard doing his work in a public space, inviting people to come up and start talking to him. Shaun Maguire Profiles | Facebook I had some aptitude. There are certain shapes that have differentthey have the same eigenvalues, same to the Laplacian, with different geometries. Subscribe to Chain Reaction onApple,Spotifyor your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. One of the things that's interesting about the journey of being a PhD student is that you work so hard to get to the cutting edge. They're human too. Caltech means a lot to me. LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that enables trustless cross-chain dApp development. MAGUIRE: Yes, I do. What was seen as the holy grail? When I was getting recruited by other funds, Patrick was aware. It led to this overbuilding phase with fiber, which was actually a prerequisite to have all the internet businesses of the next decade built on top of it. It's almost a minimalist style. We say they're massless, because if they were at rest, they'd be massless. He serves as Board Member at Physna and Monad. There's a very similar result in hyperbolic geometry which basically says the eigenvalues that correspond to waves moving in negatively curved space follow these very specific rules, and there's some really beautiful aspect, and there's actually a relationship between those thingsbetween those waves and the eigenvalues that come from the waves, and the geometry in these geometric data.
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