Most product roadmaps are built on secondhand information that's been sanitized through layers of management. A game of telephone. His isn't. Even now, @vladtenev personally does customer support tickets at @RobinhoodApp. Phone. Chat. In Person. Even got licensed as a broker

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Before @PaloAltoNtwks became a cybersecurity giant, its founder was a teenage hacker in Israel writing some of the world’s earliest computer viruses. That curiosity led Nir Zuk to Unit 8200, to joining the early team of Check Point, and ultimately into a career-defining rivalry

@bhalligan-isms are an infinite source of wisdom. Everyone building a company at any stage should listen to his new pod "Long Strange Trip"

“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's @parkerconrad, CEO of @Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in

“Many of the best things we’ve learned have come through failures.” @ipaananen built @supercell into Europe’s first decacorn by inverting the standard corporate hierarchy and radically accepting failures. Hear the story of Supercell today on a new episode of Crucible Moments.

Excited to launch a new season of Crucible Moments, starting with the incredible story of @zipline 🚀

Crucible Moments: Season 3. Coming October 23rd. https://t.co/XUn5mKyPHl

Last month we stated that the race to redefine retail in the AI era is on. Yesterday @OpenAI started sprinting with some impressive new features. Full thesis below. If you're a founder building a vision for the $1T retailer of the future, reach out. DMs open.

We recently had the opportunity to discuss the current state of AI with Jensen Huang from Nvidia. This presentation summarizes our discussion. Jensen has talked about building the "AI factory" of the future. What took 144 years during the Industrial Revolution might happen in

Excel is the default for spreadsheets. @n8n_io aims to be the default for AI. Jan Oberhauser transformed n8n from workflow tool to AI orchestration platform—4x revenue growth in 8 months. Hear how he's building the "connect everything to anything" layer for AI. 🔗👇

There’s a $1T opportunity to redefine retail in the AI age. Every major tech shift creates a retail giant: 🏭Manufacturing → Department stores 🚂Locomotion -> Mail-Order 🛜 Internet → Amazon 🤖 AI → ??? What's next? Learn more 👇 https://t.co/2gP4XcgMUN

ChatGPT was a happy accident. At this year’s AI Ascent, @sama recounted @OpenAI's journey from scrappy research lab to platform company, and laid out a surprisingly specific roadmap for AI's evolution in the next 2-3 years. 👀👇 https://t.co/gsJRc0AzU5

The AI opportunity is massive, but only for those moving fast enough to seize it. @gradypb @sonyatweetybird & @konstantine share their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges in AI today, and why this is the time to "go at maximum velocity” in our 2025 AI Ascent keynote.

🔥Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox I gave a quick talk at @sequoia AI Ascent day on: - A new type of agent I think will become more popular (ambient agents) - A new UX for interacting with these agents (Agent Inbox) Check it out! https://t.co/K8wZe8SBdz

The Physical Turing Test: your house is a complete mess after a Sunday hackathon. On Monday night, you come home to an immaculate living room and a candlelight dinner. And you couldn't tell whether a human or a machine had been there. Deceptively simple, insanely hard. It is the

Last week we hosted our 3rd annual @sequoia AI Ascent, bringing together 150+ of the top founders and researchers in AI. Our star-studded speakers dropped hot takes and sparked inspiration for a standing-room-only audience: - jensen huang on token-generating AI factories as the

1/ On Friday we gathered 100+ leading founders and researchers in AI to discuss the transformational opportunities ahead in our 3rd annual AI Ascent. Today we've released 4 videos from the event, with much more to come! Playlist 👉 https://t.co/5P9mi09yaL

On AI Synesthesia https://t.co/sxAZPgTf6J ✍️@sonyatweetybird @gradypb, An All The AIs via @sequoia 💡"Visual thinkers can speak in paragraphs. Coders can sketch in pixels. Writers can prototype products. Musicians can narrate. The barriers between disciplines, roles and modes

🎉Two decades of YouTube! From that first zoo video to becoming the world's second-largest search engine, YouTube has transformed media, culture, and how we connect. Explore the early decisions that defined the platform in our Crucible Moments episode: