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GP @Sequoia . Preseed/Seed/A. Boards @linear @middeskhq @recroom Seeds: @replicatehq , , 5 in stealth: robotics, AI agents, & more. AI, SaaS, dev tools.

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Stephanie Zhan
9 months
We invested in the seed round of @nvidia in 1993, and have only deepened our investments in AI since then @sequoia . This year alone we have partnered with ~5 Series A AI companies and ~15 preseed and seed AI companies. 🚀 Please reach out if you’re just starting out, ideating,
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Sonya Huang 🐥
9 months
Today marks the one-year anniversary of our original essay on Generative AI. Nobody could have predicted the firestorm that ensued. In this new essay, we discuss what we got right and wrong, where we stand, and where we go from here.
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Stephanie Zhan
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Major highlight hosting @Sequoia AI Ascent was chatting with my friend @Karpathy . We chat about his future predictions for the ecosystem (an LLM OS!), elephant in the room questions (Is scale all that matters? How to compete as a young startup against OpenAI and others?),
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Stephanie Zhan
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So grateful to be included on this list. 9 years in, investing is humbling & ever so challenging, but believing early in founders in ambitious dreams & building towards that is invigorating ✨I’m grateful to my incredible team at @sequoia , & most of all, the founders whom I’ve
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1/ ⚡️Exciting news! ⚡️ After leading the @linear_app Seed last year, I’m excited to share that we are leading the Series A, and that I’ll be representing @sequoia on the board. Here's the story behind our partnership with the team:
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Excited to share @sequoia ’s partnership with @100Thieves ! Thrilled to be on this journey with @Nadeshot @RohnJobinson @jacksondahl @blakeir and alongside co-owners @scooterbraun @Drake ! Read our blog post to learn why:
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100 Thieves
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100 Thieves Raises Series A, Drake and Scooter Braun Join As Co-Owners.
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Stephanie Zhan
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As evident in the product itself, @linear is masterful and thoughtful in everything it does — including company building. 4.5 years in, @linear is a rare gem — a profitable and growing business, with a world-class product and brand, powering the best companies of our
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Karri Saarinen
10 months
Today, I’m thrilled to announce our $35M Series B led by @Accel , along with @sequoia , @01Advisors and some incredible leaders and product folks. @linear has never been in a better position to help companies to build great software.
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Stephanie Zhan
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Excited to be leading our @sequoia LATAM efforts alongside my partner @sonyatweetybird , from Seed through Growth! 🌎 We have been lucky to partner with @nubank and @rappi over the last decade, and can’t wait to partner with many more defining companies over the next decade!
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Sequoia Capital
3 years
What a journey with @velez_david : from Sequoia partner to founder of @nubank , where we partnered at seed, to the world’s most valuable challenger bank. Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies. We see that opportunity more than ever in LatAm.
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Stephanie Zhan
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Elon is one of the 🐐. This Q&A about how he builds high performance teams, was my favorite of the day: 1) small teams of highly technical, high performers, 2) teams of vibrant energy and good vibes, 3) a culture of intensity and dedication to your best work, 4) as CEO, stay
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
🚀 Rec Room raises at $3.5B! 🚀 Modern Roblox coming your way. Now a top free game across iOS, Android, Xbox, PS, @recroom is a digital third place for kids at heart! Excited for us to continue to *quintuple* down @sequoia and welcome aboard @Mazzeo !
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Stephanie Zhan
2 years
@linear is for small companies” they said. 3 years in, we’re thrilled to prove them wrong 🙃 Introducing: built for scale. Now the gold standard for the highest performing teams: Square Cash, Retool, Ramp Go team! @karrisaarinen @jorilallo @artman
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
1/ When you're the World Chess Champion and you're called to play against 10 @sequoia company founders... Challenge accepted!!! Thanks @MagnusCarlsen for joining us at #basecamp2018 🔥🔥🔥
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Let’s do this! 💪🏻
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Yuri Sagalov
4 years
Companies founded in 2008/2009: 🏡Airbnb ⛅️Cloudflare 🐙Github ☁ Nutanix 📟PagerDuty 📌Pinterest 💌Sendgrid # Slack ⏹Square 💳Stripe ☎️Twilio 🚖Uber 💬WhatsApp 📣Yammer
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Stephanie Zhan
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1/👇Long history @Sequoia investing in the most transformative AI companies: from @nvidia 's Seed and @google 's Series A, to @OpenAI in 2021, among others. I spoke to @geneteare at @CrunchbaseNews about AI's role in Sequoia's seed and early stage companies:
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
So thrilled to partner with @linear_app , to streamline how modern teams build great software! 🚀 Welcome @karrisaarinen @jorilallo @artman into the @sequoia family! Excited to work together on this journey! ✨
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Karri Saarinen
5 years
1/ Excited to announce @linear_app ’s $4.2M seed round led by @sequoia & @stephzhan with participation from @IndexVentures & @SarahRCannon and many industry leaders like @zoink , @gustaf , @emiliemc , @rsg , @tikhon and others! Read the full announcement here:
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Stephanie Zhan
2 years
🌲Today we're launching Storytime with Stephanie @sequoia 🌲 No frameworks, no how-to's. Just real stories, from founders themselves, on how they found PMF in the early days of starting a company. To start, the special journey from @jthandy of @getdbt !
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
1/ 🌱 New investment! 🌱 Today I'm thrilled to share our partnership with @sundaygrow , a new brand redefining the outdoor home. We're excited to be leading the the Series B @sequoia and joining the board. Read more about our story here:
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
🌲 Giant Sequoia trees live for 3000 years. We're here to build enduring companies and to be your partner from *idea to IPO and beyond*.... To ♾!
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Dan Primack
3 years
Scoop: Sequoia Capital just blew up the VC fund model
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
🚨New investment!🚨 After investing in the Seed, we @sequoia are leading the Series A @MiddeskHQ ! Small biz are the ❤️ of the 🇺🇸 economy. @KyleTMack @kurtruppel empower them to succeed by building critical infrastructure for business trust & identity.
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
@Forbes @KylieJenner Thrilled to see @kyliejenner paving the way for future founders, transforming brand building via social distribution, mobile video, & online community. Excited to partner with the influencers of tomorrow @sequoia !
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
🎲🎮 Update 🎮🎲 @recroom has raised a Series C from @MadronaVentures , @IndexVentures , @firstround , & @sequoia ! We believe gaming is the new social, & love working w @nickfajt & @gribbly to build *the* digital third place for kids at heart. Our story:
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
Putting our 💸 where our 😃 is in generative AI! Excited to share @sequoia 's partnership w @replicatehq , bringing the ease, speed, quality of traditional dev tools to the world of ML. Excited to have partnered w @bfirsh since their founding at the Seed.
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
This piece is everything... beautiful, heartfelt story that brought me to tears. Read it & you’ll understand the vision, passion, & grit behind everything @100Thieves . THIS is the type of founder we @sequoia love to work with. @Nadeshot you are an inspiration to us all.❤️
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100T Nadeshot
6 years
. @100Thieves CEO, @Nadeshot , talks about his beloved McDonald's orange juice trips with his late mom, and how his team is now partnering with @Drake . via @playerstribune
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
I get asked this Q the most, so here’s the mythbuster! ❤️ We have always loved Seed - Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox, all started as seed investments for us 🌱 Today 9/10 companies I work with started at the Seed 🚀 Even better? We’ve invested in every round they’ve raised since
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Sequoia Capital
3 years
Today we launched our newest US/Europe seed fund. Discover what our partners look for in idea-stage companies and what to expect from initial conversations with Sequoia @_georgerobson @stephzhan @shaunmmaguire @BogieBalkansky @josephinekchen @KostaBuhler
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
No better time to build! Excited to help us lead seed investing into the next gen of founders. Like we did @Stripe @Airbnb @Nubank right @ formation, it's been a joy working w @Linear @MiddeskHQ @Doppler @Recroom @getEthosLife ! What will our next era be known for? My thoughts👇
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Sequoia Capital
1 year
Today, we’re excited to announce our 5th dedicated seed fund to support the next generation of early-stage founders in the US & Europe. From Apple and Airbnb to Nubank and Stripe, we've always partnered with outlier founders early & for the long term.
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Excited for this next chapter at @graphcoreai ! 🚀 One of the most fundamentally important and transformative technologies we need for an AI driven future. Thrilled we at @sequoia have partnered with the team on this journey.
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
So proud of this team @100Thieves ! 💯 PS @Nadeshot still needs a girlfriend, right @RohnJobinson ? DMs open 😅
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
Excited to share our partnership w @arcwisedata through @sequoia Arc! Bringing Copilot superpowers into Sheets: 💬 ChatGPT for your spreadsheet 🧼 Clean data w text commands 🪄 Automagical formulas Turning us all into an excel wiz 🧙‍♀️ @rahulbali210 @hansonwng @jamesmariodavis
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Arcwise
1 year
At @arcwisedata we’ve been hard at work building the AI copilot for #googlesheets over the last few weeks. Heard @DavidSacks mention C̶l̶i̶p̶p̶y̶ #chatgpt for spreadsheets on @theallinpod ? We got you! Install our *free* early access Chrome extension 👇
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
🦄🚨 @recroom news🦄🚨 💖 partnering w @nickfajt from the very start: leading Seed & A, joining board, investing every round, now leading $100M D @sequoia & @index ! Digital third place for kids at 💖 @andrew__reed @damirbecirovic @ahnchrisj @matthuang
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
"Coaching is not the same as mentoring. A coach involves exposing oneself to observation. Good coaches are another level of awareness. They give you a more accurate picture of your reality." - @Atul_Gawande @sequoia #basecamp2018
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
📮For Seed and Series A, shoot me a note at zhan @sequoiacap .com. 📮For Series B and beyond, reach out to my partner Sonya at sonya @sequoiacap .com.
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
Our newest piece - autonomous agents! BabyAGI, AutoGPT… The open ⁉️in our minds: 1) Are they here to stay? What’s next? 2) Good or bad? Share your thoughts, comment below 👀 Cc @laurenmhreeder @cornelius_menke @sequoia
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Lauren Reeder
1 year
We’ve @Sequoia been hearing a lot about autonomous agents, so @cornelius_menke @stephzhan and I decided to take a 👀 for ourselves to separate the hype from reality and get a glimpse of what might come next:
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
2/ Here we go!!! 😍🤗😅
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
Excited to work w @_mayankkishore , @_amankishore , @SreeTrips on @mirage_ml . Leveraging gen AI for content creation unleashes creativity, but any good creator wants some control! Whether creating in 2D / 3D, @mirage_ml brings back control over composition, perspective, & more.
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Mayank
1 year
Head to @mirage_ml to create amazing renders and sign up for our 3D canvas waitlist!
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Stephanie Zhan
2 years
🚨New investment!🚨 We @sequoia are partnering with @fujisaha , leading a $7M round in @multisHQ . Built on top of the Gnosis Safe, to help web3 orgs manage finances. Check out our product & be in great co w @AxieInfinity @compoundfinance @IndexCoopDAO
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Excited to do this @saastr with a few of my faves in the business @briannekimmel @jmj @HarryStebbings . Come join us! 👋🏻 We’re talking all things seed investing, company building for early stage founders, and category creation! 🚀
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Bri Kimmel
4 years
RT so more friends can get free tickets Would love to see a packed house for my panel w/ @jmj @stephzhan & @HarryStebbings on best practices for early stage founders We'll be comparing notes from our experience partnering with @webflow @Superhuman @linear_app & more 🚀
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Stephanie Zhan
2 years
So proud of our team and leadership who make Sequoia, Sequoia 🌲a team and business built to perform, endure, and evolve.
@sequoia
Sequoia Capital
2 years
The next chapter in our leadership
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
. @whatdotcd Forever grateful for your belief in me & @sequoia from day 1. Thank you for trusting me even when I was new to investing, and throughout our journey together. Your support means the world to me 🙏🏻❤️ & I am so excited for the future @makebrud & @dapperlabs will build!
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Today RR is a vibrant community of 10M users who have created 4M creative, diverse worlds. We strive to be (1) cross-platform, (2) accessible to everyone to play, create, & earn 💸 and 🏆(no coding rqd), (3) safe & fun for all. Here's a sneak peek at one world, ^RecHolidayMarket:
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
From afar, we had long admired @cjc ... I distinctly remember @karrisaarinen and I talking about her as a dream hire even two years ago, based on her impact at Stripe and Notion. Today, we are so excited to welcome her officially to the team @linear !
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Cristina Cordova
1 year
This week, I’m joining the incredible team at @linear as Chief Operating Officer. In looking back on the startups I’ve joined in my career, they’ve all had a combination of extraordinary founders and customers who deeply love the product...
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Stephanie Zhan
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Excited to share @bfirsh & @allnoteson 's story of founding @replicate , which we @sequoia originally seeded in Feb 2021, and has since enabled the current generative AI wave and in particular OSS model ecosystem! Read the full story below.
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
BUILDING the future in AR / VR with @jacob @kit_ulrich @bonatsos get it? 😉 Niko’s idea. His caption too... thank you for having us @TechCrunch @panzer !
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Excited to speak at the TechCrunch conference on AR/VR tomorrow in LA alongside @bonatsos , @jacob , @kit_ulrich ! And feel free to use this discount code: . Come say hi 😊
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Brief walk down memory lane! I think @t_xu @Alfred_Lin @whatdotcd @KellerRinaudo crushed us all in this @sequoia scavenger hunt 😍
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
So proud of this team. It's been an incredible journey @Sequoia partnering with the @GetEthosLife team from Seed to today’s Series C! 🚀 Excited for the journey ahead - creating modern, ethical life insurance to protect the life you're building and the people you love. ❤️
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Ethos Life
5 years
Ethos was built on the idea that #lifeinsurance is a crucial financial investment, and should be #accessible , #affordable , and #straightforward . Our most recent funding round, led by @GVteam , will be leveraged to invest in customer growth and experiences.
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Stephanie Zhan
7 years
Excited to have @sequoia supporting women in tech with @hunterwalk @jess @peterrojas @aileenlee . Thanks @BBGVentures !
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
*Tripled down* in one year 🚀
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Shaun Maguire
4 years
Really excited to share that we @sequoia have *tripled down* on our partnership with @viseinc – a true testament to @samir_vasavada & @RunikM ’s leadership & the dream team they’ve built!
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Stephanie Zhan
7 years
Thrilled to partner with @graphcoreai . Changing the game with a processor designed for AI workloads. 100x performance gain over GPU. Coming to you 2018! @sequoia @mcmiller00 @BillCoughran
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Matt Miller
7 years
Thrilled to share the news of our partnership with @graphcoreai . We look forward to helping them build a large and enduring business. @sequoia @BillCoughran @stephzhan
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Thrilled that Linear is now open to all! Excited to also share the Linear Method, encapsulating the principles, practices, and habits that encourage us to build magical, quality software. We are hiring - come join us! @karrisaarinen @jorilallo @artman
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Linear
4 years
Exciting changelog today: 🎉 Linear is now open for all. No more waitlist, anyone can sign up for free. Our announcement Sign up today at:
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
Starting 2019 with a 💥 on @Netflix ! ✨ Sparking joy with @MarieKondo : Tidying Up with Marie Kondo #TUWMK #Konmari 💯 Behind the scenes of @100Thieves : 7 Days Out #HonorAmongThieves Let’s go!!! 📷 @RohnJobinson Cc @sequoia
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The big golden question for Andrej... what gives you the most meaning in your next chapter? He envisions a world with a healthy, thriving AI ecosystem, one similar to coral reefs he dreams of (yes, as vibrant as the AI generated ones!). Andrej is one of very few who could
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
We're so excited to share our latest Sequoia Arc cohort. Special people + small, intimate community + a focus on iterating on your early idea to get to PMF + getting the foundation right for the *long term* = 😍
@sequoia
Sequoia Capital
1 year
1/ This week, Sequoia welcomes our Arc Spring ‘23 cohort with companies from health tech, fintech, crypto, AI, and more – including one second-time applicant. Let’s learn more about the companies out of stealth 👇
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Stephanie Zhan
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Thrilled to partner with @MiddeskHQ , building modern infrastructure to help businesses establish trust through a suite of identity and risk APIs. Excited to welcome @KyleTMack and @Kurtruppel into the @Sequoia family!
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Stephanie Zhan
7 years
. @t_xu @Alfred_Lin to @ycombinator founders: 1.Have clear, authentic mission, 2.Invest in relationships, 3.Maniac focus on most imp issues.
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
Fun to judge @TechCrunch Early Stage Pitch Off, alongside @NatSandman @NeeshaTambe @anthonyha and Wen! Congrats to the winner @nalagenetics , increasing prescription efficacy through genetic testing in Asia!
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Excited to share our partnership with  @vallelungabrian & the  @DopplerHQ team on their Seed round! Doppler's robust secrets manager will help developers maximize security & improve productivity while building core applications. @sequoia
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Stephanie Zhan
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🚨 @getEthosLife raises $100M @ $2.7B!🚨 Peter, Lingke, & the @getEthosLife team are building a rocketship company to protect families. The avg US life insurance co is tens of billions in market cap - this is just the beginning. Join us - we’re hiring!
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
@recroom #2 on Xbox now! Ahead of COD, fortnite, and roblox 👊🏻
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Shawn Whiting
4 years
COD warzone ⚰️ Rocket League 🔜⚰️
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Stephanie Zhan
16 days
Coming soon… 🎬 our new @sequoia AI podcast: Training Data! So excited to release our fun side project “Knowledge distillation” from our incredible guests Subscribe here:
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Sonya Huang 🐥
16 days
New podcast alert! Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Hosted by me, @gradypb , @stephzhan , @kostabuhler and more of our @Sequoia partners. Training Data is a passion project years in the making. The founders and researchers in our orbit are
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
So psyched for this. @recroom now on iOS💥
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Rec Room
5 years
Rec Room is live on the App store! (world wide)(iPhone and iPad) 🚀 Thank you so much for helping us get here! All iOS players who log in before Dec 4th will be gifted the new glowing neutron visor item to show our appreciation ♥️
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Nothing like this warm of a welcome as I attempt to cross the street in Beijing... note the “don’t move, don’t move, or you’ll die!” from our @sequoia China colleagues. Ha 😅 I love this city!
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
What I love most about @linear ’s culture and philosophy: “talk to your customers and keep building stuff!” “The simplest way to figure out what to build is just to ask people what would help them." - @karrisaarinen via @sequoia 's #SevenQuestions .
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Stephanie Zhan
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2/ 🚨 I'm excited about everything from 🚨 - infra tooling / developer tools to 1) help companies embrace AI and 2) support a burgeoning open source ecosystem - technical advancements around/beyond generative models, diffusion models, the Transformer architecture - new
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
So fun. BOD in Rec Room itself with all of us each on iOS, Quest, and PS4 😊
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Love fresh twists on the third place concept. Vertical communities, new platforms & form factors, mostly online (sometimes complemented with offline experiences), & active forms of entertainment. Many opportunities to build new communities & identities for younger generations!
@sequoia
Sequoia Capital
6 years
. @stephzhan explores how to build a new “third place” for virtual communities.
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
“Where there is a lack of understanding [between people of different cultures]... that is where fear is bred.” -Malcolm Clarke, two-time Academy Award-winner, sharing the inspiration behind Better Angels, a new film exploring US & China relations from an anthropological lens 🇨🇳🇺🇸
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
New milestone✨ @linear is becoming the de facto tool of choice for category leading, fast growing companies. Proud of this team and thrilled to see the likes of @retool and @loom growing on @linear ! Check out our new customers page
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Karri Saarinen
3 years
This year, we’ve been focusing on making @linear for fast growing startups. We believe in streamlining workflows, and it matters even more as companies grow. We’ve added new features to help them do that. Our newest release featuring Triage and Timeline:
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Stephanie Zhan
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Defense tech is central to our national security. Mach is a step-function advancement to the state of the industry, with its hypersonic defense technologies that leverage state of the art hydrogen creation & combustion techniques. Learn more & join us:
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Stephanie Zhan
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Just read this piece & am reminded of a question @apoorva_mehta asked me recently: why is it that Chinese tech giants expand into *all* (including each other's) industries, whereas American giants stay for the most part within limits? Thoughts?
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Stephanie Zhan
7 years
We crushing it on @hqtrivia - first win with @matthuang ! 💃🏻 for all of $2 😂
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Stephanie Zhan
8 years
How to jumpstart a marketplace? Steal chickens and build a chicken farm 😉 (figuratively) @sequoia @mlz @thumbtack #startat16
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
Loved this. Just the beginning for a world with more digital characters, avatars, and third places 💥💯
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Rod Breslau
5 years
The Fortnite @marshmellomusic concert event is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a video game. Well done Epic. From @CouRageJD
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
Proud of @getEthosLife , making life insurance easy & accessible to all. ✅There are 11 insurance cos in the Fortune 100. ✅We’re building a modern insuretech to join their ranks: protecting families for today’s generation. ✅Massive market, incredible mission. We’re hiring!
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Ethos Life
3 years
We’ve thrilled to announce we've raised $200M in Series D funding, allowing us to enhance our best-in-class user experience, and expand our offerings to provide life insurance for all. Come join us as we protect the next million families:
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
Let’s go @karpathy & team!!! 💪🏻💯🚗
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Andrej Karpathy
5 years
So proud of the Tesla Autopilot team and very excited to see the the veil lifted on some of their work earlier today 👏 A number of people got to experience this:
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Stephanie Zhan
2 years
Time 100! 🚀
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Rec Room
2 years
And That’s How We Do It #recroom
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Congrats @TeamLiquidLoL & SO thrilled to see @100Thieves headed to #Worlds2018 ! 💯I have so much respect & admiration for the players, coaches, and folks behind the scenes who do everything to support their team & build an incredible brand & community for their fans ❤️🙌🏻🔥
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
The best type of outsider, immigrant story. Thank you @ericsyuan for inspiring us all with your grit, humility, and vision 🙏🏻✨
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Alex Konrad
5 years
Zoom's IPO wowed Wall Street yesterday. Behind the $16B market cap bonanza: new billionaire Eric Yuan, the immigrant founder whose video conference app just works better. Here's my exclusive deep dive into how he did it, in the next issue of @Forbes .
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
. @recroom #11 across all free games on iOS today! Above @Roblox and behind @CallofDuty
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Stephanie Zhan
3 months
Scale is all you need! Right…? Mostly - scale sets the "speed limit". What also matters: 1) high quality data and 2) the right talent on the algorithms side, on the infrastructure side to train these models at scale, and on the data side. Gives hope that there is room for
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
👇🏻 That’s the smile from bringing comfort and peace of mind to families everywhere 🤗 Thrilled for this next chapter @getEthoslife ! Welcome aboard @Accel & @GVteam .
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Ethos Life
6 years
We believe that getting life insurance should be simple - no hidden fees or fine print, or someone trying to sell you something you don’t want. And we’re just getting started 🙌🏽
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Best recent surprise: reconnecting with college friend @marcelpclash and discovering he has become 🏆 #2 globally in @ClashRoyale and 💯 an incredible gaming content creator. @Clash_with_Ash I'm trying to convince him to "come out of semi-retirement" full time! Please help 😉
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Ash
6 years
This was one of my favorite pro vs pros I've ever recorded. @marcelpclash comes out of semi-retirement to try to put an end to the @Pompeyo4CR win streak! Tune in tonight on CWA for the results :)
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
3/ And this is me and my @sequoia partner @matthuang warming up for the big game! @MagnusCarlsen , how are we doing here?! 😜 #basecamp2018
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
The perfect union… so excited for this next chapter with @makebrud and @dapperlabs . The best in the business in community building and social storytelling - bringing DAOs accessible to the mainstream consumer!
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Not investor, just fan. Love products like @hqtrivia creating delightful live mobile video games / entertainment. Excited to see new wave of exp across other categories / shows too. Latest milestone: 👯‍♀️1.2M peak active players 👀401K viewers thru Q12 💰$30K in prizes in wk
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Hey folks 👋🏻 Join us tonight for our capstone Sequoia Labs workshop @Stanford ! Featuring: Lessons in Leadership with @Sequoia ’s @dougleone , @eventbrite ’s @juliahartz , and @Doordash @t_xu ! (& follow along on my IG!)
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
Excited for @sequoia to help build AI personalized videos with ! Been a joy to work with @hassaanraza97 & @qfav95
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Quinn Favret
1 year
Thrilled to announce our seed round led by Sequoia Capital to continue to lead in the scalable AI personalized video space 🦚 Read about it here->
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Stephanie Zhan
6 years
Thrilled to partner with @getEthoslife to build the future of life insurance - making it simple, fast, and convenient online to provide security and peace of mind for your family. Excited for the journey ahead! @roelofbotha @sequoia
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Ethos Life
6 years
We launched out of stealth today with great financing partners including @sequoia , @RocNation , @TeamDowney1965 , @KDTrey5 's The Durant Company and Will Smith’s Smith Family Circle. We're Ethos and we're excited to announce we're here for you #GetEthos :
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Stephanie Zhan
4 years
Interesting data from the @Okta integration network: best of breed saas & office 365 suite go hand in hand 77% of Okta’s customers with Office 365 are also on Slack, Zoom, Box, AWS, Salesforce or G-Suite @Zoom & @Slack esp on 🔥, Box losing share, Salesforce stagnant
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Stephanie Zhan
3 years
❌ Saying bye to the 10 year fund cycle that has defined venture ✅ When we say we want to be your "long term" partner, we truly mean for *decades*.
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Sequoia Capital
3 years
Patience is a virtue. We believe it’s also smart business. The traditional 10-year VC fund cycle no longer makes sense for today’s world, or tomorrow’s founders. Introducing The Sequoia Fund. (1/2)
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Stephanie Zhan
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This week also marks an exciting milestone with @recroom as the #1 free-to-play game on @Xbox , after our launch last week...Ahead of Rocket League, COD War Zone, Fortnite, and Roblox 😍
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Stephanie Zhan
5 years
Join us! A fearless team led by @karrisaarinen @jorilallo @artman @mihar , that cares deeply about craft, quality, and bringing magic back to software 💫
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Karri Saarinen
5 years
Excited to share that at @linear_app we are looking for great people to join the team and our mission to streamline the way software is built. We wrote about our philosophy and what are aiming for with Linear. Let’s bring some magic back to software!
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Stephanie Zhan
1 year
More on our views on autonomous agents 👇🏻
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Daniel Chen
1 year
Autonomous agents have been the talk of the town the last month. AutoGPT was one of the fastest starred repos in Github history. But how far are we from AI agents taking over? To better understand, I dug into the code. Here's what I found:  More below 👇
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