Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

TechCrunch AI Marina Temkin June 9, 2026

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# Sequoia and other top venture firms are accused of selling the same company stakes at different prices to different investors—a practice that can inflate valuations and mislead some investors about what a company is actually worth.

Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.

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