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@GuptaRK22 Congrats on taking the big step into founder-land! 🚀

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.

Reforge Build is out. Prototype from your product, not from scratch.

@iamharaldur Project Hail Mary audiobook was 10/10.

I always struggle with finding good audio books. Right now I'm looking for fiction. No thrillers, fantasy, romance or murder mysteries please. Anyone have suggestions?

@soleio Would love to attend!

Designers: hit me up if you attend this iykyk

We want to be cyborgs, we do not want to be robots - @garrytan #Config2025

@bryanptran :lolsob:

We launched a new consumer product! Congrats to the entire team who worked so hard on this launch…check it out: Fizz.com

What a time to be alive. Can't wait to try!

Excited to have @Max at @pearvc studio next month. Come hear his lessons building @Instacart

@gaganbiyani The guide was very helpful! 🙏🏽

Empower Oakland has had 100,000+ views of it's voter guide since September. And another 100,000 via mail. There are 250k registered voters in Oakland. And this is our first cycle! Thanks for all the support everyone.

Oakland has recently become a national laughingstock due to our failed policies, brazen crime and alleged corruption. We, the voters, can change this. Today we launch Empower Oakland 2.0: a GrowSF-style voter education organization in Oakland. Over the past few months, I've spent my nights and weekends meeting with city officials, former/future mayors, current staffers in city hall, and community leaders. My goal has been to understand wtf is going on and to find a path forward. Along the way, I met Loren Taylor, a 3rd generation Oakland resident who started Empower Oakland and already had great success in their last election. This election is critical. There are 5 city council positions (out of 8) on the ballot. Two recalls. The city attorney and county supervisor positions. The entire city government could change in November (usually it takes 4-6 years!). We believe this opportunity is going to help set the foundation for the next decade. So we're going to help commonsense, effective and experienced candidates win their races. The main way we will do this is through voter education. Voters do not respond to last-minute political advertising that has no context or brand behind it. Instead, we are going to build a brand voters can trust and then share useful information with them each week through our newsletter. We're going to spend time in the community, talk with the police, and then report back on what we learn. We'll do deep dives on city hall so you can know what's going on and where we stand. Then, closer to the election, we'll ask candidates to answer questionnaires to share their positions on critical issues. That will be compiled into a voter guide where we will share which candidates we believe can be most effective. Ways to get involved: 1. Subscribe to our newsletter and share it widely! 2. Donate $500, $1,000, $5,000. We will be run by volunteers, so your money will go directly to campaigning for commonsense politicians through our voter guide. 3. Volunteer. DM me if you're interested, especially if you have digital marketing or web design/development experience. Links below :)

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@bryanptran Meeee

@JamesClear Da Enzo al 29

Italy experts! You're in Rome. You're going to visit one restaurant that has incredible food and, hopefully, is a place actual Italians love and isn't overrun with tourists. What's the one place where you have to eat?

@somefinetweets Awww this tweet made me happy.

@himani just caught up with RST — glad to hear you're still kicking ass. You're missed!

*AI has entered the cart* techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/ope…

Why are people talking about anything else besides the alien invasion?!

👋@MavenHQ is looking for a senior design contractor! You’ll - Design to improve Maven’s marketplace - Collaborate with teammates & leadership - Help build the university of the future 3-month contract starting in Jan 2023. Interested? Shoot me a DM.

@far33d Awww I miss sitting next to you at work!

This dude is kinda weird looking but I bet he’s got something interesting to say.