"The cost of college is like flight tickets. You can be sitting here paying $200...and the person next to you is paying $0." Founder Amira Yahyaoui says @mosdotcom's job is to help students be the person paying $0. Here's how

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! ⁦

⁩ looking like a G at the 7th Ave subway. ICYMI: his startup is called Roon and is backed by First Mark, TMV, Sequoia... Roon.care

1/4 I remember pulling out my phone to take this picture of

@zoink

signing our term sheet on the Figma office rooftop, and telling him "trust me, it'll be cool when I tweet it out in a few years". Here goes! Today

@figma

announced it will be acquired for ~$20B by

@adobe

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Hey guys, I wrote a thing about the Merge!

sequoiacap.com

Understanding the Merge

A normie’s guide to one of the biggest changes in Ethereum’s history.

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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:

sequoiacap.com

Generative AI: A Creative New World

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I’m incredibly lucky to have team

@sequoia

in my corner by way of Arc, their seed-stage catalyst. Eternally grateful to

@DannieHerz

@laurenmhreeder

and

@mvernal

, who ushered me into this company trajectory-altering program.

We’re thrilled to be part of the

@sequoia

Arc cohort. The avatars are excited as well!

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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m starting a company. I’m building something for teams that have found themselves hankering for more of that “we’re all in this together feeling” lately. Full scoop on what I’m dreaming up: constellate.team

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Sequoia Capital

@sequoia

Sep 13

We’re thrilled to introduce the latest cohort for Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders.

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@thetkkong

Sep 13

Today is Day 2 of my new venture. I’m excited to announce that we’ve joined

@sequoia

's inaugural Arc Americas cohort, partnering with

@josephinekchen

@Alfred_Lin

. 🧵 on our founding team, why we chose Arc & takeaways for other founders starting out 👇

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Loved chatting with

about all things Arc - our application process, program details, and most importantly the companies.

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Business Insider Tech

@BITech

Sep 13

Sequoia received thousands of applications for its school for founders, Arc. Here's an exclusive look at the nine startups that made the final cut. businessinsider.com/startups-admit

Great energy and chemistry at yesterday's

@Sequoia

Arc kickoff! Meet our first class:

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@sequoia

Sep 13

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In the last 10 years I have hired over 300 people. I have found that it's WAY HARDER to recruit senior women leaders, even as a female CEO. Here’s my playbook for how to get great senior women to join your company:

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You know your husband is a nerd when he spends nights & weekends coding an open source library to determine if your kids look more like mom or dad #theAnswerWasObvious #proudwifey ♥️

Use Pinecone to See Which Parent Most Resembles Your Kids

In March, we announced our lead investment in the Series A for Pinecone, a semantic search database powered by vector embedding search. I…

Thank you

and Bloomberg

for having me on to talk about Sequoia Arc, the market, Roe v Wade,

@mavenclinic

@AllRaise

and more. Full clip at bloomberg.com/news/videos/20

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Bloomberg Technology

@technology

Jul 12

$1 million plus a 7-week course on how to build a category-defining company. Sequoia Capital partner Jess Lee talks to @emilychangtv about the firm's new seed-stage catalyst. trib.al/zcL2bRY

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"We're long term incredibly bullish, near-term realistic" says

@sequoia

@gradypb

#crypto He sees parallels with the early days of the internet So who's the $AMZN of the crypto burst? "What

@SBF_FTX

is doing w/ FTX right now is unbelievable."

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Jess Lee

@jesskah

Jul 6

Thank you for pioneering and paving the way. Hope one day you feel so secure in your massive successes (ahem, Shopify, Livongo, kind of a big deal :-) that you can share the full story.

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Elliott Robinson

@TheValuesVC

Jul 5

Today is the last day of my 16th year as a VC The only way Ive survived this long as a Black Man in Venture has been to prioritize success over happiness even in the toughest of times Reading this, you may not understand, but this whole thing is not setup for us to succeed #16

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Thanks

for a great chat! Loved talking about customer obsession, product mindset, and community at

@Sequoia

. 🎧 to learn about Sequoia Arc (applications open now seq.vc/arc) and which

characters

would be 🤣

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Patrick OShaughnessy

@patrick_oshag

Jul 5

My conversation with @jesskah Jess is an investing partner at Sequoia but also runs their product effort The twin role makes her unique among past guests I loved talking product and investing with Jess (A must listen for Marvel fans) joincolossus.com/episodes/87558

My conversation with

Jess is an investing partner at Sequoia but also runs their product effort The twin role makes her unique among past guests I loved talking product and investing with Jess (A must listen for Marvel fans) joincolossus.com/episodes/87558

Jess Lee

@jesskah

Jun 27

Arc connects founders with

@Sequoia

’s powerful network for mentorship and support, through regular 1:1s with our partners and fellow founders, office hours, peer boards and Sequoia community dinners. Our inaugural European cohort visited

@Klarna

in Stockholm for their field trip.

Arc Americas is 9/12-10/28, with Weeks 1 & 7 in Sequoia’s Menlo office, a field trip in Week 4, the rest remote. You receive $1M funding and learn topics like Customers, Product, GTM, Culture, Business. We blend lectures, case studies, hands-on practice and a group field trip.

Delighted to announce Arc applications are now open for the Americas! Arc is

@sequoia

’s 7-week seed-stage catalyst for outlier founders. We teach Company Design, the Sequoia way to start, build and scale enduring companies. Apply here:

sequoiacap.com

Arc Americas: Build for the Next Decade

Applications are now open for the first Americas cohort of Arc, our seed-sage catalyst for outlier founders.

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Jess Lee Retweeted

Natalie Miyake Boston

@nataliemiyake

Jun 26

It is always a woman’s right to choose. Turn your anger, disappointment and fear into action.

Today's ruling from the Supreme Court is a devastating step back for healthcare in the United States. Read our Founder & CEO

@_KateRyder

's response here:

linkedin.com

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Roe v. Wade

Today’s ruling from the Supreme Court is a devastating step back for healthcare in the United States. Every major healthcare and medical organization agrees that abortion is a critical part of...

It’s true,

knows how to open a conference #AllRaiseVCSummit cc:

@jennylefcourt

@aileenlee

@MandelaSH

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Congrats Maven

on being #19 on

's #Disruptor50. Maven fights the good fight for women's and family health. A lot of investing is about making contrarian bets. It’s crazy that women would be a contrarian bet, but here we are.

cnbc.com

Female-led Disruptors are defying the odds and tackling massive social problems

Less venture capital went to women-led start-ups last year, but on the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, more female-founded firms at higher valuations are leading.

Jess Lee

@jesskah

May 4

George is the best. Founders of Europe,

@_georgerobson

is a product strategist, deep thinker, has seen high growth startups from the inside

@RevolutApp

, a kind human. Love working with him on

. Congrats on

30 Under 30!forbes.com/sites/hanktuck

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George Robson

@_georgerobson

May 4

Grateful to be included in this years Forbes 30 under 30 Europe List alongside many great former colleagues and friends. Excited for what's to come @sequoia in 2022! #ForbesUnder30

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My better half

figured this out right away. He writes code as part of his investing process at

@MenloVentures

. Few VCs would write an open source library for their portfolio companies:

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Tim Tully on LinkedIn: GitHub - tullytim/Pinecone.jl | 25 comments

Writing code was not part of the original VC job spec but I’ve made it part of my process. I wrote an open source library connecting two of my portfolio... 25 comments on LinkedIn

Love this thread from

@gradypb

of lessons learned in his 15 years at

@sequoia

. Honored to be included as one of the stories. It took me 2-3 years to figure out how to be the best version of myself as an investor, and I’m still iterating all the time.

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Pat Grady

@gradypb

Mar 7

3/ A lesson from @jesskah: Become the Best Version of Yourself, Not of Somebody Else loom.com/share/2f1f8926

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Jess Lee

@jesskah

Mar 21

Capital is commodity, company building help is not. We’ve distilled 5 decades of working with great founders into core foundational concepts in Company Design. Iterated with 100+ founders at 80 companies to get here. More on why now from

@LucianaLix

techcrunch.com

Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M

Image Credits: Eric RolphSequoia has over the years made a name for itself for its early-stage bets on younger companies, many of which (Apple, Klarna and WhatsApp, to name a few) have gone on to...

We will kick off

Arc with a European cohort, 5/23-7/15. 1st week in London, 8th week in Menlo Park, virtual in between. Plus a field trip to

@Klarna

@klarnaseb

to see what greatness looks like. US applications will open in the summer and the US cohort kicks off in fall.

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Announcing Arc by

, a catalyst for outlier seed stage founders. $1M + 8 weeks of Company Design programming, taught by Sequoia partners and our network of operators and founders. Learn to build for the next decade, not the next quarter. Apply:

arc.sequoiacap.com

Sequoia Arc: Catalyst for Seed Companies | Sequoia Capital US/Europe

Receive $1M in seed funding and learn Sequoia’s approach to Company Design from best-in-class founders, operators & Sequoia partners.

This conversation with

@HarryStebbings

was my most personal yet - from leaving Romania 20 years ago, to working with founders who shaped European tech over the past decade, and to launching

@sequoia

Arc, a seed catalyst for outlier European founders. thetwentyminutevc.com/luciana-lixand

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Another powerful story of protégés.

@BookCameo

CEO Steven Galanis

@Mr312

met

@jacksonjhin

via a broken elevator and gave him a shot to be Cameo’s CFO at age 24. When Jackson left to cofound

@protege

, Steven angel invested and also introduced him to

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Thank you Steven for taking me on as your @protege. You gave me a shot and changed my life. twitter.com/Mr312/status/1…

We're starting with the music and entertainment industry. Use

@protege

to submit your beats to

@djkhaled

, record a song with

@Tyga

, get signed by country star

@playbkplay

, or get your acting monologue critiqued by Seinfeld star

@IJasonAlexander

protege.com

Protégé: Be Heard. Get Discovered

Every industry has gatekeepers to talent, and the right warm intro can be game-changing. What if you could manufacture that serendipity?

@protege

founders

@jacksonjhin

@guamish

found their mentors via a broken elevator and a Craigslist ad:

sequoiacap.com

Partnering with Protégé: Talent is Distributed. Opportunity Should Be, Too.

Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.

@iamlokre

is a 27 year old Toronto singer who was heard on

@Protege

and discovered by Grammy winner

@beberexha

. Powerful stories like hers are why

is investing in

and partnering with

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The entire

community is behind you

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It should be clear at this point that Mandela was the best choice we could’ve made. You don’t have to believe us, though, listen to what the community has to say.

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Jess Lee

@jesskah

Mar 15

Welcoming our new Chief All Raiser

@MandelaSH

! Mandela SH Dixon is a founder, funder, bridge builder, and an inspiring leader. Thrilled for

@AllRaise

to be the platform for her to continue her life's work as our CEO.

medium.com

Welcoming All Raise’s New CEO, Mandela SH Dixon!

By Jess Lee on behalf of the All Raise Board of Directors

Jess Lee

@jesskah

Mar 1

Are you a PM who combines the best of fun consumer delight with structured fintech thinking? Do you want to create the next generation of banking? Do you want to work with an exceptional team and for a founder that has revolutionized a country? Join Mos!

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Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

Mar 1

Featured role of the day: Product Manager at @mosdotcom "This role will be Mos' first PM, and have the opportunity to heavily shape Mos' product. We've seen incredibly rapid growth (hit #3 on the app store in just 2 months) and just raised our Series B." lennysjobs.com/jobs/86e76563-