Luc Levesque

Thanks @tobi, the pleasure’s been mine. So glad we were able to work together after all these years.

@lennysan 🚀🚀🚀

Guys

@joulee Congrats!

Sundial has raised $23M to build the analytics platform for the AI era! Our work is personal to me (though many have asked: Why? Aren't you into intuition and taste and experience which is ultimately unmeasurable?) But hear me out: I love building, and I have a deep respect for it. Making something people love is one of the hardest and most humbling endeavors. The art comes down to making high-quality decisions, which comes from an obsession with the cliff’s edge between customer understanding and product capability. You need to know what’s working and what isn’t. That’s why data matters. Data is *information* about how reality works. At Sundial, we live by the mantra: diagnose with data; treat with design. What does masterful decision-making look like? It comes down to 3 things: 1. extreme alignment 2. shared curiosity to unpeel deeper and deeper layers of truth 3. urgent execution The very fact is that good intuition and taste comes from data internalized across many, many reps. Yes, reality is infinitely more complex than what can be measured. But measuring gives us a better grasp of reality. Alas, using data well is like learning a new language. It requires years of skill and context building. It's easy to misuse, whether misguidedly or intentionally. I know this all too well. Mastery requires everything from how to break down an ambiguous question, to fluently reading triangle charts and dense tables, to remembering the specific name of a specific column using a specific dialect of SQL. Too many people, like me, regularly feel frustrated by a) how long it takes to get answers b) how to draw the right interpretations c) how much noise I have to wade through to find actually actionable insights. Instead of greater confidence and quality, we get conflicting signals, cherry-picked facts, and analysis paralysis. Sundial is our attempt to solve those problems. We’re bottling up opinionated intelligence to guide decision-makers towards faster and more confident decisions. We envision a world where *everyone* can be their own expert analyst. Sundial uses AI and expert analytical techniques to make insights accessible to every decision-maker. Exemplary analysis takes the listener through a story. Data should speak the language of business, not the other way around. Sundial is also smart in the ways you’d expect of an AI-native tool. It’s not just about looking up data (“What’s India ARR last month?”), which has become table stakes; rather, Sundial can also tackle deep, complex analysis (”Why did ARR decline? What are my levers?”). In a crowded landscape of fragmented data tools—dashboards, notebooks, ETL systems—Sundial brings it all together into one intuitive platform. We believe this era of AI will see teams doing far more with less, and moving faster than ever before. Our mission is to build the data brain for the next generation of AI-powered companies. We're thrilled to be backed by @dpatil at GPV—the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and coiner of the term "data scientist”, alongside industry luminaries like @amasad, @tobi, @fidjissimo, @alexschultz, @shishirmehrotra, @rsanghvi, @avichal, @drewhouston, @howietl and firms including @sequoia, @TribeCapital_, @sunflowercptl, @Unusual_VC. The best part of building Sundial is the people we get to work with. Funding announcements are nice and all, but what really fuels us is the feedback and growth trajectory of our customers. There’s nothing better than working on interesting problems with people you like. Onward! (P.S. We’re hiring for AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists in the Bay Area -- DM me if you resonate with our mission, love dissecting big problems down into smaller ones, and appreciate the consistent practice of craft.)

@sdview No additional PMs for now

We're building something special with AI and are looking for a few more talented full stack engineers in Ottawa and Palo Alto to join our world-class founding team. Reach out if you want to learn more. It’s an amazing time to be building again. 🚀

@gokulr @MarathonMP @MBGilroy Congrats! 🚀

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.

@HarryStebbings Congrats! Excited to be part of 20Growth with you. Let's do this techcrunch.com/2024/10/15/20v…

Most all of the good growth levers are very technical in nature and having a technical background is a massive advantage. Especially for marketing and growth.

@beffjezos 👋

Everyone in biotech or curious about bio/acc based on Boston or SF plz reply to this thread, will make a community

@balajis And create new, deeper metrics that unlock new insights.

Good executives don’t just look at the metrics, they create the dashboards.

@aseidman 👏

This is a great thing for the American economy.

@mlz @thumbtack Congrats! 💪💪

Launch day! I’m proud to announce the biggest product update in @thumbtack history — an entirely updated and expanded experience that makes Thumbtack a one-stop solution to care for your home.

@kevinweil Let’s do it, I’ll send you an email. We can swap notes on thoughts for the future. These transition times are exciting.

@luclevesque Thanks! We'll see if there ends up being a break :) But definitely open to it if that's how it works out. What are your plans? We should grab bfast!

🧵Life update: I’ve made the very tough decision to step down as President of @Planet. I won’t be going far though—after my last day in May, I’ll be continuing on as an advisor to the executive team, and staying close to our work in DC as a new member of the Planet Federal board.

@darrinhenein @Shopify @jingleyfish @nejatian @archieabrams @CynthiaSavard @tobi Congrats!

Eight years! Endlessly grateful for the challenge and opportunity that @Shopify offers to continually grow and better yourself. Thanks to those who this year supported me along the way, among many others: @jingleyfish @nejatian @archieabrams @CynthiaSavard @luclevesque @tobi 🙏

After stints as a senior executive at two of the tech industry’s biggest global players, Luc Levesque is pausing to take a well-deserved break for a bit of play himself. obj.ca/luc-levesque-o…

@nejatian @kaz @Shopify @tobi @harley Ooops! 😂 ...

@kaz @luclevesque @Shopify @tobi @harley I blame you for this mix up. You could have picked USAKaz as your handle. :)

Life update: After 4 amazing years, I’ve decided to step down from my role as @Shopify’s Chief Growth Officer and have transitioned to an advisory role. Thanks @Tobi, @Harley and @Kaz, it’s been a blast! More on why and what’s next here: luclevesque.com/blogs/luc-leve…

@aseidman Tesla has flamethrower swag, hivemapper needs branded samurai sword swag

Another day, another battle against douchebag scalpers begins ;-)

@3GS @espiridellis Amazing, congrats!

StoryBots won two Emmys including best show and best writing in the preschool category! Even better than trophies, Netflix released data that shows kids and families around the world watch 128,000 hours of StoryBots EVERY DAY. So grateful for this journey with @espiridellis!