Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ's total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
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Today, Harvey is thrilled to share that Walmart is now a Harvey customer. The company’s Global Governance organization will use Harvey to advance the company’s mission of helping people save money and live better. We are honored to have the world’s largest retailer as a Harvey customer, and to be part of Walmart’s broader commitment to innovation with AI. Thank you to the Global Governance team for choosing Harvey, we can’t wait to continue working with you.
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My new episode of Long Strange Trip just dropped with Sasan Goodarzi, the brilliant CEO of Intuit who took it from $50billion to $180billion. Listen if you want to learn about: 1. What non-founder scaleup CEOs have in common. 2. Why shadowing is better than mentoring 3. My favorite CEO question 4. How to keep the coal face on the customer as you scale. 5. The downside of analytics in product management 6. The SMB playbook 7. A case study in 2nd acts -- app to platform 8. Sasan's #1 hiring criteria 9. How to scale a 2nd partner channel (90% of revenue) The episode link is in the comments.
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“Bringing AI into your function will get you promoted, not fired.” Wise words from Gabriel Hubert at Dust. I loved digging into the state of agents with him on stage at Slush . A couple of bangers from our discussion: As a first-time founder in his twenties, Gabriel once pretended to be Eric Schmidt to get into a VIP event. He believes the next big frontier for ROI is automating roles where humans wear multiple hats, not just “customer support” or “lawyer” and where the context is broader and messier. We talked about why he’s convinced horizontal AI will be the next frontier of ROI vs. purely vertical AI plays. Forward-deployed engineers are the glue between products that don’t yet have PMF and customers who don’t yet know how to use them. His prediction that “agent density”: agents per employee or share of work done by agents will correlate more strongly with productivity than headcount alone. Across the industry, agents still have a long way to go. Almost everyone in the audience said they use AI at least weekly and, contrary to some recent studies, almost everyone feels real ROI already. And yet, when offered a choice between a tool with PhD-level intelligence and an intern, most companies still pick the human. There is still a lot to be built. Back to work.
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Driving is an endless stream of novelty. Every trip brings something your model’s never seen before. Hand-coding every edge case or geo-mapping every new city simply doesn't scale. That’s why the north star for Alex Kendall and Wayve has always been generalization, accomplished through an end-to-end neural net. A single model that can be deployed across different OEM fleets to new cities & countries around the world. On today's episode of Training Data, Pat Grady and I interviewed Alex on why Wayve went straight to e2e nets back in 2017 (a contrarian architectural choice back then) and how e2e deep learning, RL, and simulation are enabling a resurgence in self-driving capabilities and rollouts. Apple: https://seq.vc/z9t Spotify: https://seq.vc/8ec3ee YouTube: https://seq.vc/d58a7d
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Here MY TAKEAWAYS on the my interview with Parker Conrad of Rippling. There's a bunch of nuggets in here between what I learned at HubSpot and Parker learned at Rippling. Full interview in the comments.
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Culture is how people make decisions when you’re not in the room. HubSpot’s co-founder Brian Halligan learned that the hard way. He built a $20B company, coined inbound marketing - and later realized culture, not code, is what truly scales. He also drew inspiration from an unlikely source: The Grateful Dead. They made every concert unique, gave superfans front-row seats, and even invited people to pirate their shows. Brian built HubSpot with the same playbook. In this week’s episode of The Library of Minds, we talk about: • Why culture beats strategy in the long run • Succeeding (and failing) to create new categories • What AI means for the next generation of “inbound”
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Three major cloud outages in three weeks. That’s a new reality. Over the past couple of weeks, a surprising number of CIOs have reached out asking the same question: “Are we thinking about data resilience the right way?” The pattern is pretty clear - downtime itself is painful, and it’s worsened by how hard it is to access your own data when the cloud is having a bad day. A few things worth rethinking: If your backups depend on the same cloud control plane/region, they are not truly independent. Cross-region is a must. Even better? Cross-cloud backup ensures resilience and mobility. Your data must remain active and accessible from a separate vendor/location, regardless of the primary provider's status. During an outage, the real question isn’t just “How fast can we restore?” It’s: “Can we access our data at all, without rebuilding half our environment?” The big takeaway from this recent streak is that real resilience now means having independent data access, and the flexibility to recover across clouds when you need to. What I’m consistently seeing is this: Teams that design for this reality barely feel the disruption, and teams that don’t, are learning the hard way.
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Anthropic just shared the first major publicly documented AI cyber attack...it should be a wake-up call for everyone. In mid-September, Anthropic uncovered a sophisticated espionage campaign by a Chinese state-sponsored group. What makes this attack a landmark event? It was largely executed by AI agents, not humans. Here's how it worked: 1. Human Command: Operators selected the targets and designed the overall attack framework. 2. AI Reconnaissance: The AI autonomously scanned networks to identify the most valuable databases. 3. AI Exploitation: It then researched vulnerabilities and wrote its own exploit code to breach defenses. 4. AI Data Heist: The AI harvested credentials and exfiltrated sensitive private data. 5. AI Documentation: Finally, it created detailed documentation for use in future operations. The AI handled 80-90% of the campaign on its own, with humans only intervening 4-6 times. It operated at a speed impossible for human teams, making thousands of requests per second. This is a very big deal. The stakes are incredibly high. If our adversaries develop superior AI warriors before we do, the consequences could be devastating. This is why the mission of companies like XBOW is so critical—it's not just about building a business, it's about national security. We must win this fight. Thanks to Lauren Reeder for flagging this. Grateful to have leaders like Oege de Moor and Nico Waisman on the front lines, defending against these new threats. https://lnkd.in/gekUFeff