Sam Beskind

About a month ago, I laced up my hoop shoes for the last time as a student-athlete. Here is what I’ve learned in my almost twenty year journey with the game. My hope is it can be helpful to anyone who dares to dream big and chase greatness in whatever they do.

Shoutout @benkuhn (benkuhn.net/outliers/) and @masonwang025 for suggesting :)

Searching for an outlier requires taking many shots on goal and knowing what you’re looking for. The first criteria gives you a chance at finding one, then the second criteria tells you when to stop looking.

In the first five years of The Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford released 8 different models (the A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S), giving people a tasting flight of the horseless carriage.

Sources: UNC Greensboro is targeting Jerod Haase as its next head basketball coach. Nothing is final, but the two sides are now working through the framework of a deal that would make Haase the Spartans' next head coach. Former head coach at both Stanford and UAB.

Trust in yourself is not only built through successful repetitions, but also through failed ones. When you have worked through failures in the past, you fear them less in the future. You know you can bounce back. Successful repetitions build competence. Failed repetitions build resilience.

Four years ago, Benny Gealer went to Stanford as a walk on. He just dropped 30 in a blowout win over SMU. Anarchy? Nope. Just College Basketball.

The coolest thing about this is @mattshumer_ is a genuinely good human. :) Lucky to be a friend of his and play the smallest role in sharing something critically important with the world.

The rate of useful information someone can communicate per minute of conversation is hugely correlated with effectiveness. It’s not about talking speed. It’s about knowing what’s worth talking about, concision with those ideas, and knowing what the other person doesn’t yet know.

@mattshumer_ 1000% worth the read. @mattshumer_

Every time someone asks me what's going on with AI, I give them the safe answer. Because the real one sounds insane. I'm done holding back. I wrote what I wish I could sit down and tell everyone I care about. Send it to someone who needs to read it. x.com/mattshumer_/st…

@jacobrintamaki im a little late to the game but would love to be added :)

I could not find one that exists so I am making the robotics paper reading gc. Please comment or DM if you want to be added.

@v_computer excited to build :)

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Why not just quit ? Chuck it all. Sell the business. Take the money and run. Play it conservatively. Relax a little. Real entrepreneurs never do, though, and I haven't either. Generally, real builders are so focused, one-dimensional, and dedicated. They'd have a nervous breakdown after two weeks of sitting around. Their challenge, even their reason for living, would be gone. Why would I swap fun, influence, challenge, and more money than you could ever spend for only a multiple of more money than you can ever spend? I can't think of anything better than my current situation. Should I take the company public and have to answer to more partners, stockholders, and security analysts? Why would we want to do that? We're going in the other direction. We've already bought back Merrill's 30% investment in our company. The first 10% we bought back for $200 million in 1996. And the second 20%, we bought back for $4.5 billion in 2008. Not a bad return on their original investment of $39 million. Sell? No thanks. Answering to no one is the ultimate situation. So back on the treadmill, I go. Ratchet up the risk, enter a new medium, start another project. Improve, develop, expand, go for it. – Michael Bloomberg

@GuptaRK22 LFG.

Venture investing is a remarkable job. You get to hear visions for the future from founders. Then you get to help in a small way while they go and will that vision into existence with resilience, grace, and grit. Being at Sequoia has given me the chance to work with some of the best founders in the world. Bret and Clay. Max, Jeff, Marcelo, and Daniele. Eric and Karim. Saji and Ashu. Job and Marcelo. Anil and Sunil. George. So many others. They are awe-inducing and inspiring. So inspiring that I've decided to join them and start my own company. I miss building and leading. I want to compete on the field during the AI wave. I'll share more soon, but for the moment, I will say that AI is the most transformative technology of our lifetimes. The opportunity for companies who embrace it thoughtfully and aggressively is unbounded. I love Sequoia and have made lifelong friends here. I have been lucky to learn from the very best. And I will still be on the team. Sequoia will be a founding investor in the new company and I will remain a Partner. I am so excited to get back on the field. LFG.

Design and user experience are going to win in 2026.

@anshnanda @v_computer able to share now :) will send you a link

@sambeskind @v_computer Congrats Sam!! When can I download it?

When I started working at Floodgate, I realized something fast: I still wanted to train like an athlete, but no longer had time for hours in the gym. So with @v_computer, I built a place to quickly pull the right workout for the time I have.

@RayFernando1337 @v_computer open now :)

@sambeskind @v_computer It looks like your DMs are closed.

This app looks insane 🤯