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Twitter's ex-CEO auditioned for SNL. It taught him something he never forgot. #podcast #shorts
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-08 14:45
I never took a risk that I wasn't super psyched I took. Even I was like trying to get on SNL and wasn't successful. It ended up benefiting me down the road cuz it was like, "All right, like live TV on CNBC, are you okay doing that?" I'm like, "Look at the camera? Like I got booed at midnight in in Australia by a thousand people. I can look in the camera and talk about it." >> My co-founder took a comedy class in business school.>> Yeah, it really helped him. Yeah, being on stage and you know, being uncomfor ...
The first goal Dick Costolo set as Twitter CEO was embarrassingly low. #shorts #twitter #podcast
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-07 18:23
I just felt like Twitter was such such a drama. Twitter was like drama queen of hyper growth companies. It was like constantly in the news.When I took over CEO that year, the Twitter bird had hanged itself and exploded on two different magazine covers. So I went up to our head of communications, Gabriel Stricker, and I was like, Gabriel, great news. Next year's goal, no dead birds on magazine covers.You know, low bar. ...
AI That Designs Its Own Chips: Ricursive's Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-06 19:03
One of the themes that we've heard throughout the day is that neural nets are replacing a lot of traditional tools. And I think one of the most exciting application categories where we've actually seen that come to life is within chip design, where neural nets are now becoming superhuman at certain parts of the semiconductor design process. And so I'm thrilled to introduce Anna and Azalia.They were the co-creators of AlphaChip, which did exactly this at Google and was used on multiple generations of TPU and ...
Starcloud's Philip Johnston: Why the Cheapest Compute Will Be in Space
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-06 16:49
Thanks so much for having me. Um my name is Philip Johnston and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Star Cloud and just like the previous company we have also been abusing GPUs in ways they were not designed for. >> [laughter] >> Um so yeah, we're building data centers in space um mainly for the energy that we can draw and I will spend the next 5 minutes um explaining why it will soon make much more sense to build data centers in space than it does to build them on Earth and then I'll take 5 minutes for questions ...
Why Data Is the Real AI Bottleneck: Flapping Airplanes' Ben and Asher Spector
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-06 16:11AI Processing
Bringing up two frontier spotlights, the first is Ben and Asher, two brilliant brothers. Yes, they are come on up. Uh founders of swimming submarines.Wait, no. Wait a second, flapping airplanes. Um and we're excited to hear about data efficiency.Thanks so much. Thanks, Konstantin. >> [applause] >> All right, yeah.It's uh really great to be here. Thanks for having us. Uh we're very excited to tell you about why the future is data efficient.Um so, let's get into it. So, uh first I think introductions are in o ...
ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for AI
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-06 15:24
So I love uh line charts and bar graphs as much as the next guy probably more. Uh the story of 11 labs is also interesting from a human perspective which is you started a company with a childhood friend. So maybe take us back to 2022 or earlier and just tell the the human side of the 11 Labs story to start >> the I have the I have the most luck in the story of 11 Labs because well it started in 2022.It felt feels like it started 17 years ago when I met my my co-founder P. Uh all the names in Polish are comp ...
His engineer went to sleep. AI finished the project. | OpenAI's Greg Brockman
Sequoia Capital· 2026-05-05 21:30
Does OpenAI have a formal definition for AGI. Are we close. Are we not close.We do have a formal definition, but to some extent one thing I have learned is that everyone has their own intuitions about what AGI is, and according to my view of where we are, I think we're about 80% of the way there in that we have models that are smart. They're very capable. Are they smarter than you.They're certainly more capable than I am at writing software, right. If you give it all the context, then yes, I think that they ...