Excited to share some news: as of yesterday I’m a partner at . How did I know this was the right move for me? Well… let’s take a look at some of the highlights of my first day 👇
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Lauren Reeder
@laurenmhreeder
Currently, partner . Formerly, product leadership /, . Always, curious.
Joined November 2013
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Some things take 10+ years to develop and still look like overnight successes. The world of generative AI is one of them. and did a truly incredible job breaking it down 👇
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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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Move over Heroku, and are building a new cloud platform that actually scales with you 💪
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At 16 @_johnnydallas_ made history as the youngest speaker at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference—and that was just the beginning. Today, he and co-founder @zzh8829 are on a mission to automate away complexity in the cloud with @Zeet_Co
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And the journey is only just beginning!
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I've learned so much about what it takes to build a dev-tools company, but talking to exceptional people like @BogieBalkansky @laurenmhreeder & @amasad I'm reminded of how much more there is to learn
Quick story time on how we got here 
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Data + CDR is an equation I’m excited to see more of! 🚀
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We want to help founders build for the next decade, not the next quarter. If you want to learn how, apply on our website, or if you still need to be convinced, listen to
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We give companies a meaningful amount of capital to get started or to supplement an existing round, enough so companies can focus on building without having to jump right into fundraising again once the program is finished.
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It’s taught by the entire group of Sequoia partners ourselves. These are people who are the best in the business - who have operated themselves and seen hundreds of companies grow up, from 🌱 to🪴to 🌲.
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The focus is on foundational company building knowledge - where to aim the company, how do you set the right culture to aim high, hiring fundamentals, and everything else that makes up the strong core that every company needs to succeed 🚀.
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It’s a small group, 15-20 founders max. We are keeping the group small to built a truly tight knit, powerful community of the best seed founders we can find. This is a group that can rely on each other and have the context to go deep as they begin their journeys together.
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I am so blown away by what and the team have built with Arc. After helping with the European cohort over the last month, I can't wait to do it again. What makes the program special? A few things..
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Deno is delightful to use, surprisingly powerful, and best of all, is only just getting started. Read more about why we're so excited:
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5/7 Boris Tane, founder of Baselime, grew up in Cameroon wanting to program but without a computer. After moving to the UK and quickly learning English he went from not knowing what a web server was, to developing new software architecture patterns. @BorisTane @baselimeHQ
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One of my favorite applications of GPT-3 sits inside of 's product - congrats on being named to the 2022 AI 50 list! 🦾
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Congratulations to the companies on this year’s #ForbesAI50 list. Proud to partner with @mutinycorp, @huggingface, @AMPRobotics, @DominoDataLab, @cresta, @whisperai1. Exciting companies pushing the promise of AI forward. forbes.com/lists/ai50/?sh
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Our friends at have built out a truly unique experimentation platform that _anyone_ can use to quickly iterate and make your product 10x better.
Watching them build build build each week is truly awe-inspiring! LFG and team 🚀🚀🚀
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Working with Hareem is a career and life cheat code
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that’s why you should join pave design… but *you* tell *me* what role you want.
let’s talk?
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From only a mother: I hope you don’t have to break anyone’s kneecaps as part of the “Segment mafia”
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Segment mafia just getting started! twitter.com/tidocarriero/s…
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Sometimes it's the plumbing that few people want to deal with that becomes the most interesting. I see a lot of plumbing over in the billing world 👀
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Here's why @sequoia's @laurenmhreeder & @BogieBalkansky, along with @Zuora & @stripe are betting big on enterprise billing. protocol.com/enterprise/ent
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Congrats on your Series A!! 🥳
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There’s the infrastructure that everyone talks about to run your business - with AWS and Datadog types. And there is infrastructure that no one talks about, but is just as critical - the latest example being for taxes. Critical for selling anywhere in the world 🌎🌍🌏.
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Had so much fun recording this podcast 
/ 2-way therapy session with @HarryStebbings, where we chat about building GTM orgs, investing in product & community-led growth, hiring for sales, forging deep relationships & lots more 
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/ 2-way therapy session with @HarryStebbings, where we chat about building GTM orgs, investing in product & community-led growth, hiring for sales, forging deep relationships & lots more open.spotify.com/episode/4WQTO94
Compensation is about to be shaken to its core with this dream team. And it’s the perfect time for it too
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This week I joined the *incredible* team at @PaveComp to lead product and design, and I couldn’t be more excited 
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This. The secret is not more selling, it's asking more questions 👇
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As Segment grew from open source afterthought to the leading customer data platform, we "refound" product market fit several times. Surprising to me as a product person, our biggest learnings in PMF were from wildly uncomfortable questions from our sales team 
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The toughest part of growing Segment from $0-200M+ ARR was letting go of product (which I understood) to focus on go-to-market (which I didn't). In 2017 I was really struggling with this. Five friends set me straight, a thread. 1/12
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My post-holiday legs are neither ready for nor worthy of this much snow. Nevertheless, LFG
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The Mothership was worth the wait 
. Crews are working hard to dig out and set up the slopes to expand terrain ASAP. There are more lifts and more pow turns on the way! #deepcemper #kt22
. Crews are working hard to dig out and set up the slopes to expand terrain ASAP. There are more lifts and more pow turns on the way! #deepcemper #kt22
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6 years later, and here we are — love to see my teammates doing amazing things in Twilio and beyond twitter.com/laurenmwhite/s
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And that’s all day 1! Now it’s time for the real work to begin. My DMs are open — whether you want to partner, pitch, chat or more. Excited for this journey of learning to continue 🚀
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Conciseness is valued, thoroughness is encouraged. showed up with a casual *48 pager* yesterday. You might be wondering what the topic was — web3? The changing VC landscape? The answer is… culture 💚
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I’m in the company of world class women. Not even half of us ran into each other at the same time after our partner meeting yesterday 👯♀️ and it was amazing
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We take the future seriously: Day 1 involved setting up laurenreeder.eth, courtesy of 🔮
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You know you’re old when you start buying things with your little brother’s ETH. I just didn’t expect this so soon 😳
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And all the little things in between 💚
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Bringing together an amazing team of folks who are taking the world by storm , , , and so many others!
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Rebuilding the product hiring process to allow us to double the size of our product team over the last year 👯♀️
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Improving our gross margin by 20 percentage points with a group of amazing engineers and then made it even better in the years to follow 💪
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Re-platforming our entire product to support new markets with the largest product and engineering project to date.. all in 12 months 🏃♀️
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The Integration ™️. Building the next 10 year vision for Segment, the team, and the plan behind this big, bold, audacious vision.
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Last day at Segment/TWLO 😎😭. So proud of what we built over the years and the dent I could make in everything from… 👇
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