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Working with incredible founders - Arc @sequoia
London / SF
Joined February 2009
No startup has ever ‘empowered’ its way to product market fit PMF is a war of brutal attrition against inertia, apathy & risk aversion. It requires dictatorial obsession and near relentless micromanagement Hire only to get you, the founder, closer to the truth of the customer
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What a fabulous conversation between @jaltma, @Alfred_Lin and @gradypb! I’m excited for @sequoia’s future.
I sat down with Sequoia's new stewards, @gradypb and @Alfred_Lin. Maybe a bit selfishly, I spent almost the entire time asking them about the tactics of how to do venture capital well. I got a ton out of it and hope you do too. Search Uncapped on youtube, spotify, or apple to
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My colleague @gradypb at @sequoia has a wonderful phrase: "The market determines how big a company can get and the founder determines how big the company will get." The Ramp team seem to have relentlessly redefined what their 'market' means. In their 2020 Techcrunch launch they
Had a trippy experience. A VC walked me through his thesis for a fast-growing startup. I fed the detail into our experimental AI-analyst-in-a-spreadsheet… it nailed the valuation he bid, then built a full model I could tweak. Today we’re opening it up: Introducing Ramp Sheets
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All things being equal people buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends. - guy on hacker news 5 years ago. h/t @colindowling One of the most insightful pieces of sales advice. Truer now more than ever.
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Rest in peace @GmNaroditsky - one of the most incredibly warm hearted and brilliant chess players of his generation. Gone far too soon.
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Perfect friday night in, watching LLM's fight it out for returns trading crypto Alpha Arena from @the_nof1 fun idea @jay_azhang @MatthewSiper
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Every great company has a secret at it's core. The most valuable secrets come from years of hard work, deep listening and unbridled imagination. @paritheengineer started Flow in 2017 knowing that something was broken in how the world's most impactful products were built. Think
We’re thrilled to announce our $23M Series A led by @Sequoia - joined by @patrickc, @collision, and @david_helgason. Honored to welcome @roelofbotha to our board. We’ve entered a new era of manufacturing. Reusable rockets. Humanoid robots. Self-driving cars. Humanity is
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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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The @reflection_ai team are on truly another level. Incredibly excited about this company.
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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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” - @jk_rowling in her 2008 @Harvard commencement speech.
Something that took me a long time to realize.. If you are not afraid of being called stupid, you are not swinging hard enough. Too often, we choose the safe path for its the logical way. But, the “safest” way to staying relevant is to take the path less travelled on.
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“You know what’s undefeated? Reality. Reality wins every time.” - @JeffBezos at @italiantechweek
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