Alfred Lin’s fascination with how businesses work started with a lawn-mowing service and selling pizza by the slice in college. He entered a statistics PhD program, but found himself more interested in business cases. That curiosity took him to Tony Hsieh’s LinkExchange, then Venture Frogs, Tellme Networks, and Zappos. Now a partner at Sequoia Capital, he looks for the particular experience or insight that makes a founder right for a market, and sees his job as helping that founder build a durable business.
Alfred Lin’s fascination with how businesses work started with a lawn-mowing service and selling pizza by the slice in college. He entered a statistics PhD program, but found himself more interested in business cases. That curiosity took him to Tony Hsieh’s LinkExchange, then Venture Frogs, Tellme Networks, and Zappos. Now a partner at Sequoia Capital, he looks for the particular experience or insight that makes a founder right for a market, and sees his job as helping that founder build a durable business.
Career
Alfred Lin attended Harvard University as well as Stanford University.
Partner at Sequoia Capital from 2010 to Present.Invests in seed and early-stage companies as a Sequoia partner.
Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Zappos from 2005 to 2010.Held senior operating and finance leadership roles at Zappos through its acquisition by Amazon.