Stephanie Zhan ✓

@stephzhan · szhan@sequoiacap.com · joined 11 Mar 2013

Partner @Sequoia. Investing in AI, from company formation. 1st partner to @linear @mach_industries @middeskhq @reflection_ai @ricursiveai @skildai @tavus

33 280Followers

2 504Following

1 932Posts total

653.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan27 Aug

So well deserved! The AI era is compute-constrained, and chip design is one of the deepest bottlenecks. @annadgoldie & @Azaliamirh are true forces of nature: they saw this early (before this has now become obvious!) and built @RicursiveAI to solve for it Now they’re proving AI 15.3K views · 42 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan27 Aug

Yay, in TIME100 AI w/ @Azaliamirh ! With AlphaChip, we started the field of AI for Chip Design. Last year, we founded Ricursive to take on all of chip design, from model to GDS (the final input to the fab). How we got here: (1/n) https://t.co/YJ7OQQbRcX 25.2K views · 191 likes · 17 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan26 Aug

We're still just getting started @linear, defining how real teams (and their agents!) work in an AI era Even as the business is *accelerating* into real scale, and as we serve all the frontier labs, next gen of AI startups, and the enterprise... we don't take anything for 10.6K views · 54 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan25 Aug

A GPT-3 moment for robotics⚡️ The first time it hit me was watching a Skild robot make pancakes, after seeing it done just once. It had never been trained on pancakes before. One Skild Brain: - doing tasks far OUTSIDE its training distribution from a single video prompt, with 18.5K views · 110 likes · 10 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan4 Aug

.@tavus magic! 4.2K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan4 Aug

I cloned myself. Meet v2 of Hal = my second brain and AI human (digital twin) He is 10x better than v1, which we posted a few weeks. Smarter. Faster. More me. For most of my career, I chased developers to help me build something. For Hal, I did it myself. I stayed up until 4 36K views · 101 likes · 13 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Stephanie Zhan ✓@stephzhan19 Mar 2025

🔴Excited to share my TED AI talk! How we advance AI into an era of superintelligence, with true *practical* impact in our world. ❓I ask: For all the groundbreaking milestones we’ve reached, all the intelligence benchmarks we’ve shattered, for the $53B invested in generative htt 543.6K views · 545 likes · 74 reposts · 78 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views16 925this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %50.86%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.63%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	16 925	924	18.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	50.86%	3.62%	14.1×
Engagement rate	0.63%	1.52%	0.41×

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