What seeds should I plant today? My partner sent this quote around :
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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We help the daring build legendary companies. Few are more daring than founder and CEO
Learn more about Sam, his journey, and his mission to build a better future below.
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It’s selfish not to go for broke—if you’re planning on giving it all away in the end, anyway.
@FTX_Official founder and CEO @SBF_FTX is on a mission to maximize the total happiness of the future
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We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play. 
Excited to share our musings on the space here:
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Today we revealed the latest cohort of Arc founders. We were blown away by the response and grateful to every founder that applied. We couldn’t be more excited for the friendships, learning, and successes to come.
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We’re thrilled to introduce the latest cohort for Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders.
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Preparing for my first board meeting as Gusto's Head of Marketing was painful.
I felt lost, scared and self-conscious.
I wish I had a playbook for navigating the board.
So I put one together.
Here's my 3C framework—everything CMOs need to nail the board meeting:
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The 3C framework—Communication, Content, Context—is relevant to any exec presenting to boards
- Simplify your strategy
- Be consistent and repetitive
- Define objectives upfront
- Set metrics/initiatives for each objective
- Share your wins and losses
- Meet the board regularly
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The holy grail of events trading is upon us:
Election Markets
The CFTC is reviewing Kalshi’s filing and has requested the public (you!) to comment with your opinion.
We are closer than ever to making regulated election markets a reality:
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If you are a fintech or lender and haven’t used before, it’s definitely time to look them up. They now have 20 of the top 25 mortgage lenders in the country on its platform.
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If you want to build an enduring company, take these words to heart: "We built a dream together. And now, after all of these years, we still continue to dream." Many thanks to for the reminder.
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We all love founding stories. Here is the back story of how and I met and how was born:
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As a mother of two, understands firsthand what’s broken about health care, especially pediatrics. She, & the team are on a mission to fix it.
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In their first clinical trial +’s identified leukemia in minutes. It took the hospital weeks to confirm. They started working from an old liquor store, and invented a device that could change medicine. Here's their story.
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Hooray! 🎉 Today, 50 U.S. governors signed the Compact To Expand K-12 Computer Science Education, showing a united front. There is broad consensus that CS belongs in the K-12 core curriculum. Please spread the news!
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Stunning...Stellar...Synergy. "It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." – Charles Darwin
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Better together. International collaboration gave us the most powerful space telescope ever made, and the deepest infrared views of the universe ever seen. With our partners at @ESA and @CSA_ASC, the science can begin. Together we #UnfoldTheUniverse: go.nasa.gov/3azyGqM
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Today we’re thrilled to open the application for Arc Americas. Arc is a 7-week seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders where we teach the Sequoia way to start, build and scale enduring companies. Apply here: sequoiacap.com/article/arc-am
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This year we unveiled Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst that helps outlier founders build enduring, category-defining companies. Today, we’re thrilled to open applications for the first Arc Americas cohort. Apply here through July 13 sequoiacap.com/article/arc-am
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Do not feed the ducks, please.
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Before his bid to reinvent logistics with , was a pro rock climber with a founder's mindset. “You approach the same cliff day after day, do the same moves, stumble over and over. Slowly you iterate, evolve and get better." seq.vc/7w8
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What is the scale of your ambition? Arc is for seed-stage founders actively working on an idea or product and with the ambition of building a category-defining company that will endure for the next decade.
To learn more and apply 👉 seq.vc/arc
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Introducing Arc, a seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders.
15 companies
8 weeks
$1M up-front investment
Apply now for our European cohort (US coming soon) 
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We just unveiled Neo Accelerator, a launchpad for an intimate cohort of startups. We reimagined the essence of an accelerator with a 4-week residential campus, demo day focused on hiring, and $625K on exceptional terms, incl $20M “floor” valuation. (1/…) neo.substack.com/p/reimagine-th
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WOW, a short & sweet cryptic tweet with an equally concise blog to match from ! The blog might have fewer words than either tweetstorms from - twitter.com/shaunmmaguire/ or -twitter.com/michellebailhe
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Congrats to @bankonfound! Excited to welcome and work with , , and as new investors. Found is taking the financial headaches out of self-employment. Join the @bankonfound team: found.com/careers/
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We’re incredibly excited to announce that Found has raised $60M in equity financing led by @foundersfund with participation from new investors, @lightspeedvp, and our existing investor, @sequoia. Read more at found.com/series-b. 
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Today, and I are pumped to announce the recent fundraise: $132mm across two consecutive rounds to build digital tools for healthcare providers. Honored to be partnered with and other incredible folks.
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Once in a while, a team comes along changing the way companies build and find their first customers. is one such example. We are proud to be partners! Read about how they’re bringing distribution and world-class advisors to startups:
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Tomorrow’s Federal Reserve meeting might be the single most critical event in determining the future of the economy.
Here’s a breakdown of why it’s so important (and why you should care):
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1/ Sharing a life update! I’m thrilled to join to lead FTX Ventures, gaming, and commercial initiatives reporting to , in the company’s next chapter as a leading global financial services and web3 company.
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For 30 years has been a driving force behind the electronification of markets and making global markets more efficient and resilient. We're excited to support them as they continue to realize this vision in existing and emerging asset classes worldwide.
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We are proud to partner with @citsecurities alongside @paradigm to further Citadel Securities’ mission to solve some of the most complex and worthwhile market challenges of our time. citadelsecurities.com/news/citadel-s
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We are proud to partner with alongside to further Citadel Securities’ mission to solve some of the most complex and worthwhile market challenges of our time.
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Excited to announce ’s investment in Citadel Securities alongside our friends at Sequoia.
We’re excited to partner with them as they extend their technology and expertise into more markets and asset classes including crypto.
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Saturday Reflections: If you want to be the best, work with demanding and supportive people.
"Far from being contradictory, being demanding and supportive are inextricably linked. It’s the way you are when you believe in someone more than they believe in themselves."
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The best leaders are (both) demanding and supportive.
(As a bonus, I would bet this is the only thing you'll read today that talks about Mike Moritz, my parents, and Game of Thrones)
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It's the final countdown...very exciting!
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Join us for an @SBF_FTX holiday special in 2hrs!
@Alfred_Lin and I will ask all your burning questions, such as which FTX users will get coal vs. BTC in their stockings this year... twitter.com/sequoia/status…
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I'm super excited that Amrita is joining our board. She's at forefront of new tech (from machine learning and the blockchain to interactive entertainment and payments)
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I’m so excited to join Airbnb’s Board. Airbnb's purpose to build connection and belonging profoundly inspires me. The concepts of home and travel are uniquely human, and they intersect with @Airbnb at a scale never before seen. And we are just at the beginning.
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So much mouthing off on GDP, inflation, recession right now on Why not put money behind your opinions and profit from them on
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And knows that I love & respect him. He & I do have different strategies on pace. So this was not a comment on Miami. Albeit, he did tell one of our mutual favorite companies that he would wire their next round tomorrow if they move to Miami.
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Data >> Anecdotes BUT in this case a better comparison would be to adjusting for the # of total founders in each bucket. There are *probably* way more founders with bachelors than masters than doctorates. Less clear # of dropout founders there are & what means for success rate.
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So it looks like Unicorn founders aren’t actually mainly dropouts like y’all said
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Happy Anniversary in Miami . This doesn’t have to be your strategy but some of us believe quality >> quantity.
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Miami was retirement, they claimed. Instead, I led 17 new investments & founded a new startup as CEO.
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RIP
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Simply devastated today... Lost a dear friend, a partner, and an absolutely fabulous human. A brutal reminder that life is too short, time is extremely precious. @RTysonClark
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On your first day of Y Combinator, you get the gray shirt. When you exit (our IPO was one year ago today), you get the black shirt.
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Data >> Anecdotes & if we want the creator economy to be the driving force in the future or work we need to radically transform this income distribution. If you have enduring and transformative ideas, reach out to me.
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