Roelof Botha arrived this month at the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, to meet and mingle with tech and media moguls. A controversy brewing back home followed him to the exclusive retreat.
Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, a storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm, was repeatedly asked at the event about a colleague, Shaun Maguire, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Maguire — perhaps Sequoia’s most outspoken partner — had posted on the social platform X on July 4 that Zohran Mamdani, the progressive…
