Alfred Lin ✓

@Alfred_Lin · San Francisco, CA, USA · joined 08 Mar 2008

Partner @sequoia. Working w/ founders from idea to IPO & beyond: @airbnb @doordash @citsecurities @kalshi @clay @foundforbiz @Nominal_io @zipline

148 886Followers

360Following

3 165Posts total

2.6MViews on collected posts

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	31 283	22 338	1.40×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	21.01%	6.70%	3.14×
Engagement rate	0.73%	1.18%	0.62×

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Great piece by my partner Konstantine, on how AI is a cognition revolution and how it compares to what we saw with the industrial revolution. "Over the course of about two centuries, physical work went from 99% biological to 99.9% machine. [...] A century ago, 99% of cognitive h 28.4K views · 160 likes · 17 reposts · 8 replies 02 Sep 2026 Tim Cook disproved his skeptics by focusing on Apple’s core competencies. Know your own differentiated competencies that let you become a long-term winner. https://t.co/2DVuKEj8yv 22.3K views · 145 likes · 8 reposts · 9 replies 01 Sep 2026 Everyone knows Doug is the GOAT. Internally though, he still calls himself the new associate. It's always Day 1 for him. Great interview with David on many of the lessons he's learned through his storied career. 31.3K views · 266 likes · 6 reposts · 8 replies 30 Aug 2026 My conversation with @dougleone, partner at @sequoia. 0:00 How to Dominate for Decades 3:17 Turning Fear Into a Tailwind 5:40 Immigrant Drive, Hard Work & the Beach Club 12:19 Simplifying Life & Choosing Discomfort 14:37 The Homeless Sequoia Partner With No Plan B 16:49 2.3M views · 1.7K likes · 155 reposts · 96 replies 30 Aug 2026 A common failure pattern I see with young people is joining a smaller startup because "they'll get more ownership" (or some similar iteration). When you're young, you should optimize for learning. Sometimes the smaller startup is the right choice. But it's often better to join 92.9K views · 1.1K likes · 39 reposts · 63 replies 28 Aug 2026 Gritty people have passion and perseverance because their interests absorb them, their work leads them to experience flow, and they believe their work has a purpose. However, their path to excellence is more than just logging more hours of practice. They log more hours of 28.2K views · 206 likes · 20 reposts · 6 replies 26 Aug 2026 If you want your company to be gritty: create a gritty culture, hire gritty people, and celebrate gritty achievements. https://t.co/KLN7iC7zlK 76.2K views · 419 likes · 29 reposts · 20 replies 25 Aug 2026

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