Shaun Maguire - Refounding Democracy: Free Speech and Information Warfare

'We invested $800M into X. This has given me a front row seat in the battle playing out for freedom of speech: some of the modern tactics being used to a) silence people and b) manipulate the narrative.'

In this special Pharos event, Sequoia Capital's Shaun Maguire will speak about investing in democratic renewal in the face of information warfare, censorship and institutional cowardice.

Dr Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. At Sequoia, Shaun led their investments into SpaceX, X, The Boring Company, Foundry and many others. Prior to Sequoia, Shaun co-founded a cybersecurity company called Expanse, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. He was a partner at Google Ventures, and he worked at DARPA. He deployed to Afghanistan in support of DARPA's mission there. He has a PhD in physics from Caltech, a Masters degree in Statistics from Caltech, and he has been to about 100 countries.