Sequoia Capital
@sequoia · Menlo Park, CA · joined 16 Mar 2009
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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"All your attention should just go to this one issue.
And if you overdo it, and you go overboard on that one issue, that's great."
Advice from @databricks CEO @alighodsi on how how to clear the critical bottleneck holding your company back.
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Find the bottleneck. Swarm the bottleneck. Shatter the bottleneck.
If every CEO that I coach focused like @alighodsi, I wouldn't have a job. His strategy:
- Identify the main bottleneck
- Focus the whole company on it (to an extreme)
- If you overdo it, thats great. You did it
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Listen to the full episode w/ @Box 's @levie here:
YouTube: https://t.co/pzJlhAK23m
Apple: https://t.co/xJi7l8bnfP
Spotify: https://t.co/64hLwOBbii
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Well.. @levie and I filmed this episode of Training Data a week or two ago, when the “current thing” was Doug Leone’s novacaine root canals instead of pacing the frontier… Simpler times!
But Aaron’s advice on reinventing yourself and your company for AI is timeless.
Aaron https
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"In robotics, you cannot leave deployment until the end."
@deepakpathak on the hidden pillar of robotics research, and @SkildAI's latest milestone.
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What S1 inferring and executing novel behaviors from context unlocks...
Even a robot with perfect dexterity still needs to know where everything goes in the kitchen, or what shirts you like to hang vs. put in the dryer.
S1 is a step toward a future where you can demonstrate
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"Does hype on X help us spot the next unicorn? For most of the last 15 years, no. But xAI, SSI and Prometheus were all founded at the peak of AI hype. Maybe that's changing."
New from @Konstantine and @ochonaut .
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"Does S1 exhibit physical prompt steerability: different prompts induce distinct behavior in the same environment?"
Yes! Watch S1 follow 4 different video prompt recipes in the same kitchen.
The first one is something far out of distribution -- "putting a plate in a toaster". h
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"Most problems on Earth currently go un-thought-about, because thinking is expensive."
@Konstantine on the Cognitive Revolution at this year's AI Ascent: https://t.co/tRFYvxi9o5
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"The Industrial Revolution gave a farmhand's son forty years to become a factory hand. This revolution may offer five."
@Konstantine on the cognitive revolution:
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Listen to the full episode:
Apple: https://t.co/ItiVdOwCrF
Spotify: https://t.co/lBbKiPWKGk
YouTube: https://t.co/9MyNB2a9W1
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Rebuilding the American grid is a prerequisite for AI to achieve its full potential.
@FormEnergyInc spent nearly a decade building a fundamentally new battery technology and a US manufacturing base to produce it.
@sequoia is investing $100M.
I first met @mateojaramill in
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Very special Training Data drops today: Making Cities Awesome ☺️
We haven’t featured an application company on Training Data in a while. The diffusion of AI is the Most Important Thing, and the highest-stakes application category of all is the one sitting near the base of https:
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"Is it Bitter Lesson-pilled?" — the most used, and most misused, phrase in AI right now.
@RichardSSutton sums it up on the latest Training Data with @kjaved_ , @sonyatweetybird, @Alfred_Lin
"Don't be distracted by human knowledge, as AI traditionally has been many times. htt
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@sequoia the emperor gets chosen but the losers still raised a series c so really everybody wins
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Listen to the full episode:
Apple: https://t.co/L5YrFuQen5
Spotify: https://t.co/KgVnJ4J0rt
YouTube: https://t.co/mrGnVV51Oy
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In Iain Banks' The Player of Games, a civilization chooses its emperor by playing a strategy game.
That may be the best metaphor for AI right now: multiple players, one board, and everyone at the table believes the winner controls AGI – whatever that turns out to mean. https://t
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@sequoia Our memos have gotten a bit longer and more thorough since then, though not sure if that's a good or a bad thing
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@sequoia if you're struggling to read the original one https://t.co/JNhVp7jwAz
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@sequoia very cool! they still have the same phone number
That address is now "Affiliated Psychologists & Counselors, Inc. - Cupertino"
The market turned out to be bigger than $500M https://t.co/P2YKk2BXTk
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In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50 https://t.co/Ihqu6xoFpt
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@sequoia @ipaananen @supercell no way i love clash of clans
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“Many of the best things we’ve learned have come through failures.”
@ipaananen built @supercell into Europe’s first decacorn by inverting the standard corporate hierarchy and radically accepting failures.
Hear the story of Supercell today on a new episode of Crucible Moments.
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Hear the whole story of @Supercell:
Apple: https://t.co/abqjPlwugN
YouTube: https://t.co/l0JLeK32XR
Spotify: https://t.co/gMOSUCsMqp
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Against accounts of the same size
21 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views29 828this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.65%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.24%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 29 828 | 5 983 | 4.99× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.65% | 1.49% | 2.45× |
| Engagement rate | 0.24% | 0.93% | 0.26× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
22.6K1 Sep
553.5K2 Sep
29.8K
34.7K3 Sep
281.1K8 Sep
21.4K
28.8K9 Sep
406.8K10 Sep
30.9K
390K15 Sep
40.8K
20.1K23 Sep
23.4K
18.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.12%1 Sep
0.27%2 Sep
0.63%
0.70%3 Sep
0.28%8 Sep
0.21%
0.22%9 Sep
0.40%10 Sep
0.51%
0.03%15 Sep
0.11%
0.28%23 Sep
0.38%
0.14%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes54.9%10 901 in total
Reposts7.6%1 517 in total
Replies2.7%544 in total
Quotes2.9%571 in total
Bookmarks31.9%6 332 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
21 Sep24 Sep
Daily snapshots since 21 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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