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In 2014, Keller Cliffton Cliffton shut down his robotic toy startup to build a drone delivery network for life-saving medical supplies. Everyone said it wouldn’t work. Today, Zipline delivers for hospitals around the world. Now it’s reinventing how delivery works with Platform 2 - starting with Walmart and Chipotle in the US. This is a story of betting everything to transform the world. Featuring Keenan Wyrobek, Ryan Oksenhorn, Maggie Jim, Alfred Lin Hosted by Roelof Botha 00:00 – Chewing Glass 00:55 – Discovering Entrepreneurship 02:00 – From Robots to Real Problems 03:00 – The Vision for Global Health Logistics 04:30 – Betting on Rwanda 06:00 – Building the System 08:00 – The First Flight 09:15 – Breakthrough and Scale 11:15 – The Moment of Validation 12:30 – Platform Two: A New Bet 14:15 – Seeing Is Believing 15:45 – The Next Frontier 16:30 – Never Giving Up
Sequoia Capital1,340,956 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
We’re launching our latest venture and seed funds to back outlier founders at the start of their journey. With AI driving a platform shift as big as the internet, generational companies will be built. We’re seeking the visionaries who will build them.
Sequoia Capital674,942 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Today's AI models train once. We don't work that way. We learn continuously, forget what doesn't matter, and retain what does. That gap is what Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin are closing at Engram. AI that never stops learning, with memory that lives inside the model instead of bolted on as an afterthought. In our latest Training Data episode we get into why memory is the next frontier: why the brain forgets on purpose, why RAG is a band-aid, and what becomes possible when a model is always training. 00:00 Introduction 00:59 Always Training Explained 01:51 Beyond Context Windows 03:29 Ngram Product Overview 04:34 Adapters And Training Signals 05:32 Internalize Vs Externalize 06:49 Compute And Token Savings 08:19 Teams First Then Individuals 08:51 Memorization Vs Understanding 12:47 Dreams And Offline Digestion 14:08 Training Beats Curation 15:19 Why Everyone Needs A Model 21:44 Bitter Lesson And Architecture 24:44 RAG Killer And KV Cache 31:38 Future Of Memory And Models
Sequoia Capital82,070 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
“Many of the best things we’ve learned have come through failures.” Ilkka Paananen 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.
Sequoia Capital314,196 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
Last week we hosted our 2nd @Sequoia AI Ascent. We’re sharing some of the day’s most memorable talks. Hear thoughts from @mistralAI’s Arthur Mensch, Paul Jankura’s Daniela Amodei, AI Fund’s Andrew Ng, founding member of OpenAI Andrej Karpathy, and more to come.
Sequoia Capital201,182 просмотров • 2 лет назад
Don't mistake task for purpose. NVIDIA's Jensen Huang in conversation with Konstantine Buhler: "Typing is not the job of a software engineer. Coding is not their job. Solving problems is their job." Jensen says AI is creating more jobs, not destroying them. Why? AI lets us solve problems better than ever.
Sequoia Capital14,788 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
.Markus Villig and team built the top ride hailing company across much of Europe, Africa and the Middle East by trusting the data when everyone thought they were crazy to launch in non-obvious markets. From bootstrapping in Estonia on 5k Euros to a global leader in mobility, hear the story of Bolt on a new Crucible Moments.
Sequoia Capital54,936 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
What does AI actually change for builders: It’s not just speed. It’s ambition. The old question was whether an idea was even possible. Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick says he now catches himself wanting to push the same idea ten steps further. The hard part becomes resetting your own ceiling on ambition. What do you build when the only constraint left is how big you let yourself dream?
Sequoia Capital12,965 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Before Palo Alto Networks became a cybersecurity giant, its founder was a teenage hacker in Israel writing some of the world’s earliest computer viruses. That curiosity led Nir Zuk to Unit 8200, to joining the early team of Check Point, and ultimately into a career-defining rivalry that shaped the next 30 years of cybersecurity. In a new episode of Crucible Moments, Nir recounts the wild early days: leaving Check Point to build his own startup, joining competitor NetScreen, driving around with a “CHKPKLR” (Check Point killer) vanity plate, and getting acquired by Juniper only to be told on day one they didn’t want his product. So he left. Others followed. And Palo Alto Networks was born.
Sequoia Capital50,793 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
1/ Here’s the viral video Drew Houston and arash ferdowsi made in 2008 to break through and get people to notice Dropbox – complete with easter egg references for tech enthusiasts: > Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow” (Evenflow = Dropbox’s original name) > File invites to CEOs of Microsoft and Yahoo, who were supposedly going to crush Dropbox > Tay Zonday’s “Chocolate Rain” > HD DVD decryption key It started one of Silicon Valley’s most explosive viral growth stories. On the new episode of Crucible Moments, hear from Drew and the team about navigating the rollercoaster ride from viral sensation to building a business with staying power.
Sequoia Capital91,030 просмотров • 1 год назад
Older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. People in their 20s and 30s use it as a life advisor. People in college use it as an operating system. Sam Altman discussed AI's generational divide, his vision for OpenAI to become your "core AI subscription" & more at AI Ascent.
Sequoia Capital60,724 просмотров • 1 год назад
On a new episode of Long Strange Trip, Brian Halligan sits down with ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski and Lovable CEO Anton Osika – eu/acc. Their advice to anyone wanting to found a generational company: 1⃣ Obsess over the problem 2⃣Obsess over the user’s experience and iterate relentlessly to improve it 3⃣Your team is your most important decision - choose your co-founders carefully Their most important advice: do it.
Sequoia Capital19,634 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
