Alfred Lin

Sequoia Capital, Partner

Speaker Bio

Alfred Lin is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, working with founders from idea to IPO and beyond. He partners with companies across various industries, including AI, marketplaces, fintech, robotics, and healthcare. He sits on the boards of Airbnb, DoorDash, Citadel Securities, Clay, Cobot, Formation Bio, Ineffable Intelligence, Kalshi, Nominal, Zipline and more.


Before joining Sequoia in 2010, Alfred served as Chairman & COO of Zappos.com (AMZN), VP of Finance & Business Development of Tellme Networks (MSFT), and VP of Finance of LinkExchange (MSFT). Alfred also co-founded Venture Frogs, LLC, and invested in companies such as Ask Jeeves (IACI) and OpenTable (PCLN).


Alfred has a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford.


He also writes a column about company-building frameworks and principles that have helped founders stay on the Outlier’s Path.

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