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Pat Grady
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Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native
- Saturday was my 15 year anniversary @sequoia... one of the things I love about Sequoia is getting to learn new things from amazing people, so here are 15 lessons from 15 people over 15 years... hope you enjoy!
- With immense gratitude and appreciation for @roelofbotha and his legendary leadership over the better part of a decade, @Alfred_Lin and I are honored to accept the torch and become the next stewards of @sequoia Here is the note I shared internally:A new generation of Sequoia stewards
- 1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting
- 1/ We @sequoia have always said that weβre only as good as our next investment. Itβs also true that weβre only as good as our next generation @Alfred_Lin and I get to work with the best generation yet:
- If you want to build a Snowflake-sized company, he says, you canβt be about the celeb-CEO lifestyle. βThatβs not real life,β he says. βReal life is youβre terrorized and uncomfortable every day of the week."Replying to @sequoiaYou don't take 3 companies public in 20 years without being in a class of your own. So when @SnowflakeDB's Frank Slootman gives advice to founders, it's wise to listen. For starters, he says, hire troublemakers. sequoiacap.com/article/frank-β¦
- This tweet expresses a personal view. Iβm not very vocal on twitter and Iβm sure this tweet will piss people offβ¦ but if youβre looking for drama, this is probably not it. This will be very disappointing to people with extreme views of any kind - and thatβs sort of the
- 1/ The startup community lost a legend today
- We @sequoia believe @harvey__ai has a chance to become the defining application layer AI company of this generation. Founders @winstonweinberg and @gabepereyra both run a sub-five minute mile. Are these two things related? No, not as far as I can tell. But it's a fun fact!π
- *** warning: narrative violation *** turns out people actually use this stuff!The @harvey__ai platform averages ~70% utilization / retention even after a year for firm wide rollouts to the largest pro-serv providers. Many of the largest law firms in the world are >90%. harvey.ai/blog/a-new-eraβ¦
- "An IPO is like a high school graduation. Itβs a big deal at the time, but there is a lot of work to do after the party is over... no one wants to be the person who peaked in high school!" congrats on one heck of a high school graduation @ericsyuan and @zoom_us !"My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. This #IPO is us shouting out loud to the world ..." - @ericsyuan [Blog Post] >> bit.ly/2Um3JIl << #MeetHappy
- Ok Twitter⦠who should we hire in NYC?Will more venture capital firms relocate to New York? trib.al/LJoXnWl
