The opportunity to partner with a category creator like Island.io from the start is a special one.

Congrats the the Island team! Excited to continue Sequoia Capital’s partnership with you all.

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Useful things don't need to be complicated. Samuel Colvin , the creator of Pydantic has a knack for elegant developer solutions. Pydantic Logfire pydantic.dev/logfire is 'uncomplicated observability' for FastAPI , OpenAI, Anthropic #Python #RUST .

1/ It’s been an incredible week! We Sequoia Capital kicked off our latest Arc cohort on Monday, and today I spoke with Ingrid @techcrunch and founders about all things PMF at #TCEarlyStage2024 . Recap in this🧵:

(h/t Melia Russell for the photo)

It's rare to see a team focus so heavily on quality vs. quantity from day 1 -- but Stainless has pulled it off with a product that is beloved by the best of the best.

Congrats Alex Rattray and the team on the launch!

Meet AI Creator Ads.

Use AI to generate top-performing video ads in one click.

UGC-style ads have never been so easy.

Today’s pediatric care system is not working for parents or pediatricians. Summer Health is fixing that by radically simplifying access to pediatric care. Since the pre-seed, it’s been a joy to partner with Ellen DaSilva, Matthew & team. To date, Summer Health has helped

We loved hosting a group of future founders from across Europe in our London office for important lessons in pesto-making and starting a company from doug leone and sous chef Julien Bek!

With one million autonomous deliveries completed, we couldn’t be more excited about the future. youtube.com/watch?v=pCPCa5…

Thanks Harry Stebbings for digging into learnings from my 15+ year career, the product philosophy we Sequoia Capital walk founders through in Arc, and our PMF framework.

ICYMI, here’s the framework: sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-fr…

Around Sequoia Capital, Vickie Peng is known to ask: “What problem are you trying to solve?” She has an innate ability to cut through the BS.

Hear her & Harry Stebbings break down the key components of a strong product foundation and the Arc PMF framework.

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We Sequoia Capital are delighted to partner with Ramp as they help their customers reimagine their finance function and what it can do. We have been impressed with Ramp’s ambition and execution and couldn’t be more excited to be on the journey with Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Will Petrie,

Vickie Peng is a product mastermind like no other.

📸 SMB ads from $200M ➡️ $1BN+ @ Instagram

👗 Scaled Polyvore to $200M acquisition by Yahoo!

💰 Product Partner & Co-Creator of the Arc immersion program at Sequoia

My 5 key takeaways 👇

Today Temporal celebrates 1000 customers on Temporal Cloud less than a year after it was unveiled. Another testament to how amazing this product is. We Sequoia Capital are proud to be a part of this amazing journey.

The sixth annual Forbes AI 50 list is now live.

There were many impressive companies that didn't make this year's top 50. We had over 1,900 applicants for just 50 slots.

The process from 1,900 to top 100 is fully algorithmic based on metrics like revenue scale, revenue growth,

Product-market fit is a critical goal for every startup. We developed the Arc PMF framework to help founders self-identify their path to PMF.

The framework outlines 3 distinct PMF archetypes, based on how customers relate to the problem you’re solving.
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With Arc, our immersion for pre-seed & seed founders, we go in-depth on foundational topics core to building an enduring company—starting with PMF. Curious to know what that looks like?

Bogomil Balkansky & ZΞfi provide a glimpse behind the scenes.
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Arc is awesome, if you're starting a company, you should definitely consider it.

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In particular, I think the Hair on fire vs. hard facts vs. future vision way of thinking is really helpful.

The search for product market fit is the most daunting part of the early startup journey. That's why we Sequoia Capital synthesized our 50+ years of company building into this Product Market Fit framework.
fastcompany.com/91089116/heres…