Satya Patel

@NWischoff Welcome Cordelia! What a world that's waiting for you!

World, meet Cordelia 💓

@jeff_weinstein @ScrunchAI is quietly a killer

who is the current best llm ranking and optimization, so called “geo”, startup? (there is a lot of noise in this market, so looking for stories of actual usage.)

So excited about oboe.fyi making AI useful for learning and not just doing. Congrats @NirZicherman and team!

@jinen not quite a quiet killer like you. thanks my friend.

@satyap keeps a low profile so i always get so excited when he gets public love. 🔥

@rfradin @semil Feel fortunate to get to work (and eat!) with you!

Agree with @semil, @satyap really is the best! Anyone would be lucky to get to work with him.

@ischafer oh man, thanks so much, ian!

I promise you will be smarter for having read this, but you'd be even smarter than that if you got to know @satyap.

@scottbelsky @semil feeling is absolutely mutual. your clarity of thought and your humanity are a gift to all of us.

true. @satyap wise in so many ways, love it when lists shed the spotlight on people I deeply respect and have taught me and others so much. same goes for you @semil!

@dhaber @semil Never forget the people who let you bet on them early. <3 right back at ya

@semil The best. Never forget the people who bet on you early. <3 @satyap

Satya is a "mentor on speed-dial" for *so* many people in the tech/VC world, might be 100s. Always available, always direct, always w/ ears open, always cuts to the heart of the matter. While doing all of this, happens to be a great investor, too. Perhaps not a coincidence.

@semil way too kind of you. feel lucky to count you has a friend and co-conspirator!

@scottbelsky @Behance @A24 so excited for you to apply your mind to this creative endeavor! congrats!

after 7 years since returning to Adobe (post the acquisition of @Behance), i’ll be shifting gears over the coming months + jumping into the fast-evolving world of filmmaking and storytelling (a longtime passion). excited to join @A24 - an independent studio i have long admired - as a partner and will be kicking off a few special projects within. fortunately, i’ll remain extended family of Adobe and look forward to working with them as a future tech partner. it’s hard to leave a team, mission, and customer base I care for deeply, but the Adobe team, strategy and pipeline has never been stronger. our upcoming releases of new products and transformational workflows across creativity and marketing are years in the making. i leave w/ a ton of gratitude - for shantanu and our leadership team, the incredible team we’ve built, and the countless learning opportunities Adobe has provided. i am especially grateful for the era of Adobe’s rich history that I’ve participated in - bringing products to the cloud/mobile/web, building foundational models and new products in the age of AI, growing Behance to > 50M members, innovating in areas like content credentials that foster attribution for creators, and helping advance our mission of creativity for all. as i jump into my next chapter at A24, I'm excited to finally be NYC-based (and will continue supporting founders as an investor/product advisor, writing "Implications," and serving on the Atlassian board). but right now i'm just very grateful to my colleagues at @Adobe, excited about the company’s path ahead (and our collaborations to come!), and eager to get to work w/ my new partners supporting the world’s best storytellers at A24.

Congrats to the entire @boomsupersonic team for going supersonic on their ambitious journey!

@tconrad awesome! congrats!

Very excited to step into the interim CEO job at Sonos. Shared a note with the team this morning about why I'm here and the path forward... theverge.com/2025/1/13/2434…

@m2jr I was lucky enough to meet with your dad a couple of times and I was struck by his wisdom, principled nature and sense of humor. So sorry for your loss, Mike.

This morning, Mike Maples Sr. passed away in Austin, Texas. To me, he wasn’t just my dad—he was a mentor, a friend, and one of the greatest inspirations of my life. Even though I knew this moment was coming, nothing could get me ready for it. It’s hard to accept that he is really gone and even harder to imagine a world without him in it. His presence was such a constant in my life, and the void his passing leaves behind feels overwhelming. I’m so grateful for the time we had, but I’ll always wish for more. My dad’s story began in 1942, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where his curiosity and drive shaped his early years. After earning a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1965 and an MBA from Oklahoma City University in 1969, he served in Vietnam. His business career began at IBM, where he started as a Systems Engineer and played various leadership roles over two decades. Then, in 1988, Bill Gates invited him to join Microsoft, where he served as head of products during one of the most transformative periods in the company’s history. His leadership played a vital role in establishing Microsoft as a global technology powerhouse, but what set Dad apart was his genuine ability to connect with people and make them feel valued. When he retired in 1995, he embraced a new chapter as a rancher in Cypress Mill, Texas. But retirement didn’t slow him down. He continued to mentor entrepreneurs and business leaders, sharing his wisdom and enthusiasm for innovation. Whether it was in the boardroom or on a ranch, Mike Sr’s ability to guide and inspire never changed. For all his accomplishments, my dad’s greatest pride and joy was his family. He and my mom, Carolyn, shared a extraordinary 60 years of marriage, marked by love, adventure, and unwavering support for each other. As a father to my brother Benton and me, he poured his heart into teaching us, supporting us, and, most importantly, loving us. He reveled in time with his grandchildren, and his face would light up at every family gathering, sharing stories or just enjoying the moment. He had this uncanny knack for making you feel like the most important person in the room, like life was more of a comedy than a tragedy, and like you were his partner in crime, always in on the joke. Looking back on his life, he didn’t just build a career—he built relationships, created opportunities, and left a legacy that will endure far beyond his time. He showed that it’s possible to be both powerful and kind, serious yet able to laugh at yourself. He was fiercely committed to success, but he pursued it in a way that honored the spirit of true greatness—winning not for the sake of winning at all costs, but for the sake of doing things the right way. Most of all, he tried emphasize to 'always do your best'—and not as a mere platitude. He would remind me that none of us knows how much time we have—maybe a lot, maybe just a little. But he believed that the best way to honor the gift of time was to give it your all. Do your absolute best, make the most of every moment, and strive to be the best version of yourself. For him, doing your best wasn’t just about effort—it was about gratitude. His mentorship, his laughter, and his love will forever be part of our lives. Dad, I’ll miss you beyond what words can hold. I’m still trying to process it all—there’s so much more I could say even though I’m grateful to have seen you at the very end for a last goodbye. But for now, thank you for being a guiding light and for showing up in the world in a way that every father should aspire to. Godspeed, Dad. Hopefully someday, across the great beyond, I'll see you again.

@gokulr @MarathonMP @MBGilroy Love this for you, us and founders! Super exciting!

I'm excited to launch @MarathonMP with my friend @MBGilroy. Marathon will invest in and support founders who are obsessed with the problem they're solving, who understand the customers they're building for better than anyone else, and for whom their company is their life's work. We are high-conviction investors and committed to partnering and investing through the entire lifecycle of a company. Our name comes from our belief that building enduring companies requires patience, perseverence, resilience, relentlessness and a long-term point of view, reflected in the company's culture, strategy and actions.

@bznotes Can't wait for what's next! :)

🚀Exciting News! After over a decade with the incredible team at Lux, collaborating with extraordinary founders, partners, and LPs, I’m excited to embark on a new chapter with Lux's full support -- partnering at early stages with visionary founders. 🌟 More soon…

@asanwal @formidablefund sales, cash flow management

Considering a 3-5 week fellowship for @formidablefund grantees in summer '25 The goal: 10x their revenue in next 12 mos Their biz are quite diverse - from services (lawn mowing, auto detailing) to ecommerce to SaaS What are the top 1-2 skills we should teach them?

@chrisfralic a long and winding road for all of us. love this for matt and team!

I’ll never forget when fellow investor @satyap became VP of Product at Twitter around 2011 and we used to have board meetings at his offices in SF

What a journey this has been, and now they get to take things to the next level. Huge congrats to @mrkeiser and the entire @LiveIntent team on their acquisition by @ZetaGlobal businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

The @TryCoveAI team has built an AI interface for research and work that goes well beyond a chatbot. So excited to see how you'll use it in your personal and work lives!

@mengxi @rnsharma Taylor will cut you

@rnsharma Cc @satyap fyi

Ima gonna try the “I got concepts of a plan” at the next board meeting

@anneleeskates Yaaaasss!!!

p.s., and while I believe this is old news for most of you on X, for those who don’t know ~ I've left a16z. I’m off to do my life’s work 😉🌊.

The “Small Problem” with Silicon Valley Dear founders, investors, LPs, Our corner of the world was once small, united by one pursuit: life’s work. Specifically, life’s work applied to innovations that serve human progress. The opposite is now true. Perception addiction reigns.🧵