Every @Sequoia founder journey begins differently: - Matan Grinberg of Factory cold emailed us - We cold emailed Oege de Moor of XBOW - Devin Bhushan of Squint is someone we had known for a decade - Anish Agarwal of Traversal got on our radar via his Arc application Arc

Congrats to the incredible @Figma team. The most creative, determined, imaginative, and positive group of people. I’m just so happy for all of your success.

Sequoia Arc is genuinely a sick experience. Highly recommend to early founders. You get to learn from amazing people like Jess Lee and build friendships with fellow founders. I was lucky enough to be part of their first cohort in 2022. DM if you're interested. Example mentors:

Couldn't recommend Arc more for folks starting a company today. Helped us shape the early stories we've since used across fundraising, sales, and recruiting. DM if you have any questions, applications open until October 5

Saw this hot guy on Bloomberg TV but was too distracted by his handsomeness to pay attention to what he was saying. Something about enterprise LLM market share blah blah, report here: menlovc.com/perspective/20… Tim Tully Deedy Derek Xiao Menlo Ventures

Love that Clay Kareem Amin Varun Anand have created software so powerful that it’s coined a new job title: GTM engineer.

the old startup pen test playbook: go through a sales process, wait weeks, pay huge bills, get surface-level results or sacrifice speed for quality. we've worked with XBOW to change this: thorough pen tests from the world's #1 hacker that are done in a day and priced for

Sequoia's Arc program is open for applications until Aug 17th! This program is a masterclass in designing and building a company, from culture and values to PMF and GTM. Sequoia Capital partners like Jess Lee bryan schreier Brian Halligan James Buckhouse make it 💯 - go apply: sequoiacap.com/arc/

I've said it multiple times Sequoia Capital arc changed my life if you're working on cool stuff changing the status quo, dm me and apply now

Allie Garfinkle FORTUNE Squint Devin Bhushan 3/ Come build with us! 🚀 Squint is a crew of ambitious, high-energy, customer-obsessed builders who travel onsite to some of the coolest manufacturing plants in America to solve thorny business + AI problems. Their attention to detail and Apple-level consumer-grade design

Delphi Dara Arnold Listen to the full episode of Dara of Delphi on Sequoia's Training Data. YouTube: youtu.be/Lul6QWvqQH8 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/del… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7atLt6…

awesome to see dara on training data. making, literally, training data.

IN NEWS: Squint raises a $40M Series B led by The Westly Group & TCV. @devinbhushan (Founder & CEO) on integrating humans and automation in manufacturing: "Investment is going into eliminating ergonomically unsafe tasks or highly repetitive tasks." "Where the humans are

Arc gave us the opportunity to work with incredible mentors like Thilo, it prepped us with some of the most impactful frameworks that we still apply to this day, and it surrounded us with the most ambitious / impressive builders who I’m still friends with to this day Go