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Ex-Sequoia Chair, Michael Moritz - on Modern America & His New Book Ausländer

Sep 10, 2026 · 22m

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About this episode

Today, we're back with Michael Moritz, the Sequoia investor who backed Google, Yahoo and PayPal, to talk about his family and his latest book. Moritz has written a memoir, Ausländer, out in the US this month. It began with papers found when they cleared out their mother's house in Wales, and grew into an account of how his grandparents were murdered and how his father got out during the Nazi Regime. We talk to him about what he found in the archives, why he thinks a stable society is a much m...