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Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native

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The Thought Leader

Pat Grady is a seasoned venture capital partner at Sequoia, known for his thoughtful insights and deep commitment to fostering future generations of entrepreneurs. With a rich background as a Wyoming native and BC alum, he leverages 15 years of experience to share wisdom and lead with humility. Pat’s messages resonate with authenticity, balancing business acumen and heartfelt social commentary.

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@thesmitpatel

COO @getpieces. Early at Postman & Datadog (chaos to triple digit ARR). #AI #devtools #startups ✈️ 🍽️

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@DrStarson

Building the future // @caltech Ph.D. // AI, fusion, physics, space, e/acc 🇺🇸 🚀🇺🇸

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@JJColao

Founder of @HaymakerGroup and Media Summit. Former @Forbes wretch & tech reporter.

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@brendan_o

Active coffee pundit ☕️

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@the_judge1111

Whatever exists in creation without my knowledge exists without my consent

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@vivekgirotra

M(ad) Man | VP Growth Marketing @TimesInternet | @BerkeleyHaas MBA

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@dcancel

Serial Entrepreneur. Investor. Trustee @WhitneyMuseum, Former Entrepreneur-in-Residence @HarvardHBS. 🇺🇸🇵🇷🇪🇨

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For someone who tweets less like a social butterfly and more like a scholarly owl, Pat’s account is where knowledge goes to have deep, quiet conversations at the library — if only more people could find the book on the top shelf behind the ‘viral nonsense.’

Successfully stepping into the role of steward at Sequoia alongside Alfred Lin, following the legendary leadership of Roelof Botha, Pat secured his place at the helm of one of the most influential venture capital firms in the world.

To inspire and cultivate innovation by empowering the next generation of visionary entrepreneurs while championing inclusivity and truth in both business and societal conversations.

Pat believes in the power of continuous learning, aggressive truth-seeking, and the value of healthy conflict to drive progress. He holds a firm conviction that most people are fundamentally good, advocating for unity against extremism and valuing diversity and empathy as core strengths in society and business.

His greatest strengths lie in his ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity, mentor emerging talent, and balance leadership with deep empathy. His authentic voice builds trust and fosters meaningful engagement, bridging the worlds of finance, innovation, and social impact.

Pat’s introspective and measured communication style might limit his viral reach or instant relatability to mass audiences who favor quick, catchy content. Additionally, his strong emphasis on nuance can sometimes be lost on platforms that reward simplicity over complexity.

To grow his audience on X, Pat should leverage storytelling with bite-sized insights that capture attention quickly, while maintaining his thoughtful tone. Engaging more in real-time conversations and using threads for deeper dives will attract followers who value substance and authenticity in their feed.

Fun fact: Despite being a partner at one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious firms, Pat’s tweets show a refreshing blend of personal vulnerability and professional insight, often sharing candid lessons learned over a decade and a half at Sequoia.

Top tweets of Pat Grady

Saturday was my 15 year anniversary @sequoia... one of the things I love about Sequoia is getting to learn new things from amazing people, so here are 15 lessons from 15 people over 15 years... hope you enjoy!

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With immense gratitude and appreciation for @roelofbotha and his legendary leadership over the better part of a decade, @Alfred_Lin and I are honored to accept the torch and become the next stewards of @sequoia Here is the note I shared internally:

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1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting in 2008: lmwa [“left message with assistant”, back when cold calls actually involved picking up the phone] lmwa emailed lmwa emailed lvm [“left voice mail”] lvm lvm emailed emailed emailed first response!!!

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1/ We @sequoia have always said that we’re only as good as our next investment. It’s also true that we’re only as good as our next generation @Alfred_Lin and I get to work with the best generation yet:

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This tweet expresses a personal view. I’m not very vocal on twitter and I’m sure this tweet will piss people off… but if you’re looking for drama, this is probably not it. This will be very disappointing to people with extreme views of any kind - and that’s sort of the point. The purpose of this tweet is twofold: to express my support for the Muslim community, and to express my support for my partner @shaunmmaguire Some of my best friends are Muslim. They are warm, kind, wonderful people. I love them like family. They are feeling fear right now. Fear for the safety of their families. This is not a hypothetical. These are real people - loving parents and their sweet children - who aren’t sure if they can live here anymore. Some of my best friends are Jewish. They are warm, kind, wonderful people. I love them like family. They too have felt their fair share of fear - over and over again, for generations. This is not the experience any American - of any background - should have in this country. This is not what’s made America the greatest country on Earth. Muslims are not the enemy. Jews are not the enemy. Extremists are the enemy. And when we let them sow the seeds of fear - fear of “the other” - we are letting them win. If you have friends who are Muslim, now is a good time to let them know that you love them. If you have friends who are Jewish, now is a good time to let them know that you love them. Again, I am expressing a personal point of view. But to the extent anyone listens, it is - in large part - because of my position as a partner at @sequoia I do not agree with everything my partners say. Aggressive truth-seeking and a healthy conflict of ideas is a hallmark of Sequoia. These are key ingredients in making the partnership great. Over the last six years I have learned an immense amount from my partner Shaun. He has limitless curiosity, an encyclopedic knowledge of the world, a pure heart, and the courage to express controversial points of view. It is possible to hold conflicting ideas in tension. It is possible to simultaneously admire someone for their courage in speaking truth as they see it, and to despise the pain it’s inflicted on good, innocent people. Once again: Muslims are not the enemy. Jews are not the enemy. Extremists are the enemy. Don’t let them tear us apart. And to be clear, I am not referring to Shaun as an extremist. Shaun is one of the few people with the courage and mental acuity to wade into these incredibly complex waters and attempt to provide clarity, fully knowing that the slightest misstatement will cause the extremists to pounce. Those extremists are the enemy. Those attempting to seek truth are not. Those innocent families who get lumped into the same broad categorizations as extremists are not. My extreme view is that most people are fundamentally good. Maybe I’m naive. But that’s the world that I live in. Again, the purpose of this tweet is twofold: to support the Muslim community, and to support my partner Shaun. An extremist will tell you that it is not possible to do both - you must choose a side. I am here to call bullshit. It is possible to do both. That’s what makes this country great.

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We @sequoia believe @harvey__ai has a chance to become the defining application layer AI company of this generation. Founders @winstonweinberg and @gabepereyra both run a sub-five minute mile. Are these two things related? No, not as far as I can tell. But it's a fun fact!😁 harvey.ai/blog/harvey-ra…

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On the latest episode of Training Data @BillCoughran and I spoke to @Microsoft CTO @kevin_scott who has led their AI strategy for the past seven years. Kevin describes himself as a “short-term pessimist, long-term optimist” and he sees the scaling trend as durable for the industry and critical for the establishment of Microsoft’s AI platform. Kevin believes there will be a shift across the compute ecosystem from training to inference as the frontier models continue to improve, serving wider and more reliable use cases. He also discusses the coming business models for training data, and even what ad units might look like for autonomous agents. Watch here or at any of the links in the post below. 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - Kevin's backstory 06:56 - The role of PhDs in AI engineering 09:56 - Microsoft's AI strategy 12:40 - Highlights and lowlights 16:28 - Accelerating investments 18:38 - The OpenAI partnership 22:46 - Soon inference will dwarf training 27:56 - Will the demand/supply balance change? 30:51 - Business models for data 36:54 - The value function 39:58 - Copilots 44:47 - The 98/2 rule 49:34 - Solving zero-sum games 57:13 - Lightning round

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focus, focus, focus... @elevenlabsio could have been roadkill for foundation models, but instead they're one of the fastest-growing AI companies on the planet thanks to staying laser-focused on audio @matistanis discusses specialization as a strategy, their viral moments, contextual voice AI, and infrastructure that could eliminate language barriers

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It was an honor to meet @ericsyuan ‘s mom & brother today. Long before there was @zoom_us , there was family... and that’s the foundation on top of which companies have a chance to get built

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my friend @eliast is in his 40's, looks like he's in his 20's, and has the energy of a teenager... and we @sequoia are delighted to be in business with him for the third time! @MTemkin does a nice job of capturing what he's up to here: techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/aft…

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Is @alexrodriguesca smiling because I told a good joke, or because he just became the youngest public company CEO out there? Definitely the latter… huge congrats to @embarktrucks from all of us @sequoia … already legendary, and the best is yet to come!

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Most engaged tweets of Pat Grady

With immense gratitude and appreciation for @roelofbotha and his legendary leadership over the better part of a decade, @Alfred_Lin and I are honored to accept the torch and become the next stewards of @sequoia Here is the note I shared internally:

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Saturday was my 15 year anniversary @sequoia... one of the things I love about Sequoia is getting to learn new things from amazing people, so here are 15 lessons from 15 people over 15 years... hope you enjoy!

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1/ my partners @sequoia like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of @ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting in 2008: lmwa [“left message with assistant”, back when cold calls actually involved picking up the phone] lmwa emailed lmwa emailed lvm [“left voice mail”] lvm lvm emailed emailed emailed first response!!!

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This tweet expresses a personal view. I’m not very vocal on twitter and I’m sure this tweet will piss people off… but if you’re looking for drama, this is probably not it. This will be very disappointing to people with extreme views of any kind - and that’s sort of the point. The purpose of this tweet is twofold: to express my support for the Muslim community, and to express my support for my partner @shaunmmaguire Some of my best friends are Muslim. They are warm, kind, wonderful people. I love them like family. They are feeling fear right now. Fear for the safety of their families. This is not a hypothetical. These are real people - loving parents and their sweet children - who aren’t sure if they can live here anymore. Some of my best friends are Jewish. They are warm, kind, wonderful people. I love them like family. They too have felt their fair share of fear - over and over again, for generations. This is not the experience any American - of any background - should have in this country. This is not what’s made America the greatest country on Earth. Muslims are not the enemy. Jews are not the enemy. Extremists are the enemy. And when we let them sow the seeds of fear - fear of “the other” - we are letting them win. If you have friends who are Muslim, now is a good time to let them know that you love them. If you have friends who are Jewish, now is a good time to let them know that you love them. Again, I am expressing a personal point of view. But to the extent anyone listens, it is - in large part - because of my position as a partner at @sequoia I do not agree with everything my partners say. Aggressive truth-seeking and a healthy conflict of ideas is a hallmark of Sequoia. These are key ingredients in making the partnership great. Over the last six years I have learned an immense amount from my partner Shaun. He has limitless curiosity, an encyclopedic knowledge of the world, a pure heart, and the courage to express controversial points of view. It is possible to hold conflicting ideas in tension. It is possible to simultaneously admire someone for their courage in speaking truth as they see it, and to despise the pain it’s inflicted on good, innocent people. Once again: Muslims are not the enemy. Jews are not the enemy. Extremists are the enemy. Don’t let them tear us apart. And to be clear, I am not referring to Shaun as an extremist. Shaun is one of the few people with the courage and mental acuity to wade into these incredibly complex waters and attempt to provide clarity, fully knowing that the slightest misstatement will cause the extremists to pounce. Those extremists are the enemy. Those attempting to seek truth are not. Those innocent families who get lumped into the same broad categorizations as extremists are not. My extreme view is that most people are fundamentally good. Maybe I’m naive. But that’s the world that I live in. Again, the purpose of this tweet is twofold: to support the Muslim community, and to support my partner Shaun. An extremist will tell you that it is not possible to do both - you must choose a side. I am here to call bullshit. It is possible to do both. That’s what makes this country great.

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1/ We @sequoia have always said that we’re only as good as our next investment. It’s also true that we’re only as good as our next generation @Alfred_Lin and I get to work with the best generation yet:

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We @sequoia believe @harvey__ai has a chance to become the defining application layer AI company of this generation. Founders @winstonweinberg and @gabepereyra both run a sub-five minute mile. Are these two things related? No, not as far as I can tell. But it's a fun fact!😁 harvey.ai/blog/harvey-ra…

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focus, focus, focus... @elevenlabsio could have been roadkill for foundation models, but instead they're one of the fastest-growing AI companies on the planet thanks to staying laser-focused on audio @matistanis discusses specialization as a strategy, their viral moments, contextual voice AI, and infrastructure that could eliminate language barriers

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On the latest episode of Training Data @BillCoughran and I spoke to @Microsoft CTO @kevin_scott who has led their AI strategy for the past seven years. Kevin describes himself as a “short-term pessimist, long-term optimist” and he sees the scaling trend as durable for the industry and critical for the establishment of Microsoft’s AI platform. Kevin believes there will be a shift across the compute ecosystem from training to inference as the frontier models continue to improve, serving wider and more reliable use cases. He also discusses the coming business models for training data, and even what ad units might look like for autonomous agents. Watch here or at any of the links in the post below. 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - Kevin's backstory 06:56 - The role of PhDs in AI engineering 09:56 - Microsoft's AI strategy 12:40 - Highlights and lowlights 16:28 - Accelerating investments 18:38 - The OpenAI partnership 22:46 - Soon inference will dwarf training 27:56 - Will the demand/supply balance change? 30:51 - Business models for data 36:54 - The value function 39:58 - Copilots 44:47 - The 98/2 rule 49:34 - Solving zero-sum games 57:13 - Lightning round

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beware vibe revenue! a reckoning awaits. @paid_ai founder @medinism joined @laurenmhreeder and me on @sequoia Training Data to discuss vibe revenue, the AI pricing maturity curve, and why narrow = money at the moment

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Is @alexrodriguesca smiling because I told a good joke, or because he just became the youngest public company CEO out there? Definitely the latter… huge congrats to @embarktrucks from all of us @sequoia … already legendary, and the best is yet to come!

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