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We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Joined March 2009
.@jaltma, nice initial list. The right mindset matters more than any skill, as skills may go in and out of style. The right mindset equips you to learn, unlearn, and adapt—making it far more valuable than any skill set.
Some sources of alpha that require no real skill: - having longer time horizons than others - being much more focused or much more bundled - believing the consensus thing harder than others - placing no value on status
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The AI business model is undergoing a transformation. For the last few years, the playbook was simple: put an AI wrapper on a SaaS product and sell it by the seat. That era is ending. The new wave of AI companies are moving beyond simple subscriptions and embracing a more
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new asset class just dropped incredible work team @Kalshi
Kalshi recently raised $300M+ at $5B from Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm and others. Since then, we've grown over 3x, hit $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And today…Kalshi goes global. 140+ countries. 1 liquidity pool.
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"Companies have multiple founding moments." @roelofbotha shares this learning from @jack and more with @Jason @friedberg and @chamath on @theallinpod
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Prediction markets are now mainstream. You should be able to trade on anything, anywhere … and now you can. We’re excited to announce that @sequoia has led Kalshi’s latest round at a $5B valuation, supporting the team’s mission to build the exchange to price everything. Huge
Kalshi recently raised $300M+ at $5B from Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm and others. Since then, we've grown over 3x, hit $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And today…Kalshi goes global. 140+ countries. 1 liquidity pool.
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In 2020, @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara dazzled us at @sequoia with a bold vision: make prediction markets federally compliant and mainstream. Today, @Kalshi is available in 140+ countries and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Congrats to Team Kalshi.
Kalshi recently raised $300M+ at $5B from Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm and others. Since then, we've grown over 3x, hit $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And today…Kalshi goes global. 140+ countries. 1 liquidity pool.
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From @Citadel & @citsecurities interns to making prediction markets mainstream with @Kalshi. Congrats @mansourtarek_ , @luanalopeslara and team on becoming the largest prediction market in the world. We @sequoia are excited to deepen our partnership and co-lead the Series D.
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This weekend we hosted top European founders and CEOs for our annual gathering, Europe100. Their energy and camaraderie was inspiring, and reinforced why we believe there’s remarkable opportunity in the ecosystem. Today, European founders are operating with world-class talent.
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Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built (0:00) Introducing Roelof Botha (1:08) Sequoia’s Scout program and its best-performing funds ever (3:38) State of Venture Capital: Why it’s broken, too much capital, not enough great
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At @sequoia we’ve coined a term *crucible moments*. This is a crucible moment for the entire industry @reflection_ai has stepped up to the challenge: Accelerating the frontier of open intelligence, and making it accessible to all With a team that has pioneered breakthroughs
Today we're sharing the next phase of Reflection. We're building frontier open intelligence accessible to all. We've assembled an extraordinary AI team, built a frontier LLM training stack, and raised $2 billion. Why Open Intelligence Matters Technological and scientific
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Congratulations to @ryanjdaniels, @jsarihan, and the entire @crosbylegal team! Working with them has been an absolute joy. They have assembled a killer team and are working with the fastest growing companies in the world. And it's just the beginning - please reach out if you're
We’ve raised a $20M Series A from @IndexVentures, @BainCapVC, and @eladgil, with participation from @sequoia, @CooleyLLP, and @patrickc It took us 173 days to review our first 1,000 contracts. Now, we do this every three weeks. Even as we’ve scaled, we’ve kept our signature
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We’ve raised a $20M Series A from @IndexVentures, @BainCapVC, and @eladgil, with participation from @sequoia, @CooleyLLP, and @patrickc It took us 173 days to review our first 1,000 contracts. Now, we do this every three weeks. Even as we’ve scaled, we’ve kept our signature
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This morning at Retool Summit, we introduced application generation in Retool — where, for the first time, you can generate apps on top of your data (e.g. Salesforce, postgres, etc.) using natural language. Type what you want -> Have a working, production-ready app.
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"your company is an emergent property of your culture" @btaylor of @SierraPlatform with @bhalligan at Europe 100 last weekend
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if you’re building around prediction markets don’t forget to apply to Kalshi’s builders program amongst other perks we will connect you with out VCs network 🫡 it’s time for a PM tooling gold rush Kalshi
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It was such an amazing gathering! A delight to spend time with @assaf_rappaport, @lorenc_dan, @jalehr. @antonosika and many other founders!
For the past five years we have been hosting Europe100 with our partners at Founders Forum Group, a gathering that brings together top founders and some of the greatest minds who care about Europe. This year we met in Tuscany, and the spirit of community and drive blew me away. I
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For the past five years we have been hosting Europe100 with our partners at Founders Forum Group, a gathering that brings together top founders and some of the greatest minds who care about Europe. This year we met in Tuscany, and the spirit of community and drive blew me away. I
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Thank you for hosting such a fun conversation, @daraladje!
THE LIBRARY OF MINDS: EPISODE 2 - featuring Roelof Botha (@roelofbotha) Managing Partner of Sequoia. Ex-CFO of PayPal. Early backer of YouTube, Instagram, Square. Quiet architect behind generational companies. We cover: • How elite orgs think like teams-not stars • The false
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