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James Flynn

James Flynn

@jamesfly

Partner @Sequoia | racket sport enthusiast | 🇨🇦

SF 가입일 Temmuz 2022
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Amy Cheetham
Amy Cheetham@amyecheetham·
@jamesfly pretty sure this was my exactly mock phone call test at Summit Partners cira 2014
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James Flynn@jamesfly·
me to bro going into a mtg with a founder that doesn't like to share revenue stats --> "ok i'll ask how many customers they have at min 7, then you ask about ACVs at min 23" 🤝🤝🤝
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Judge Holden
Judge Holden@the_judge1111·
@jamesfly Well under Trying to test deal comps for your Sourcery acquisition?
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James Flynn@jamesfly·
over / under $1B??
John Coogan@johncoogan

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.

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Sonali Singh
Sonali Singh@w1tness1ngh·
@jamesfly can’t believe they got acquired before having u on
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James Flynn@jamesfly·
@JulienBek to be fair... shorts in the board room is questionable behaviour
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Alexander Amini
Alexander Amini@xanamini·
Three years ago we started working on a stealth project that we weren’t sure we’d ever talk about publicly... until today. Breakthrough: Introducing LFM-Zero: the first foundation model trained on 0 tokens. No pretraining. No finetuning. No data. Instead, we initialize from an implicit probabilistic prior over the underlying data-generating process, allowing the model to converge without ever observing data. LFM-Zero matches or surpasses models trained on 10T+ tokens across reasoning, coding, and multimodal tasks. Turns out that pretraining was just regularization that was holding us back. > Read our Tech Report here: tinyurl.com/lfm-zero
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Sonali Singh
Sonali Singh@w1tness1ngh·
historically @jamesfly has been dubious of my excitement for intergalactic technology. “wasn’t the last time we went to the moon like 1972??” got news for u… tomorrow!!! 🚀 nature.com/articles/d4158…
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James Flynn
James Flynn@jamesfly·
The late 2025 @Tesla FSD update is a great example of moving users up the abstraction ladder naturally. Before: FSD was nice but drivers had to frequently adjusted max speed and manually do lane changes for it to drive how you want it to. Now: just pick from 5 driving modes Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry, Mad Max (bearish sloth users btw). The max speed, lane change aggressiveness, following distance, etc. are handled. It drives how you want it to out of the box based on that one mode choice. Underrated example for AI companies looking to get more autopilot-y.
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James Flynn@jamesfly·
Great day to be a @sequoia founder, portfolio company employee or investor. SO epic to have @dougleone fully back in the building as chairman.
Pat Grady@gradypb

It's a great day to be a founder: we've named @dougleone chairman of @sequoia. Doug passed the baton a few years back, but he never left: he’s been in the office, working on boards, and serving as consigliere to the next generation. When we realized how much gas Doug has left in the tank, we invited him to ramp back up as an investor at Sequoia. Please cut him some slack as he onboards over the next couple weeks. Let’s go!

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James Flynn
James Flynn@jamesfly·
Crosby is one of the best "full-stack" AI companies actually delivering services to end customers. They solve the hard problems that emerge when going full-stack with tech not bodies (very tempting to do) and that comes through in the customer experience. Excited to see what they build next and how this crop of AI services companies evolve!
Ryan Daniels@ryanjdaniels

📣 Update: we raised our $60m Series B from @Lux_Capital, @IndexVentures and @01Advisors, with participation from @sequoia, @eladgil and @BainCapVC . When we came out of stealth 283 days ago, we had negotiated contracts worth $30m for our clients. As of last month, that number is over $1 billion. We work with the most ambitious companies in the world, including @tryramp, @clay and @RogoAI. Today, we want you to hear from some of them directly. Contracts are the rails of commerce. @crosbylegal is a hybrid AI law firm that gets them signed 80% faster. We’re announcing our Series B to keep scaling the dream law firm.

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