Democracy just got a little more direct thanks to @Kalshi! Learn more below and explore KPOW here: kalshi.com/indices/kpow

It's a great day to be a founder: we've named @dougleone chairman of @sequoia. Doug passed the baton a few years back, but he never left: he’s been in the office, working on boards, and serving as consigliere to the next generation. When we realized how much gas Doug has left in the tank, we invited him to ramp back up as an investor at Sequoia. Please cut him some slack as he onboards over the next couple weeks. Let’s go!

In @carl_eschenbach we trust!

Grateful to @MiguelArmaza as a friend, ally and Fintech ecosystem builder who has crafted an incredible early community around @GilgameshVC Thank you for hosting me, and for making me feel so welcome on my trips to NYC!

"The only reason we start companies at all is because we don’t understand how hard it can be until we’re way too far in to give up.” @steipete tonight at the @openclaw London meetup @sequoia & @OpenAI Peter's just as much of a beast IRL as he is behind a terminal. Legend.🦞

JD and Max are ferocious, and intensely focused on using technology to deliver for their customers and drive cultural alpha in their business. Hear from @justindross with @JTLonsdale on his arc from Addepar to Opendoor and his learnings applied to building WithCoverage.

1. Similarly for our friends Max Brenner and @justindross at WithCoverage, AI is actually accelerating our business, helping overcome legacy providers’ high costs and manual operations to delivery personalised assessments for our customers. sequoiacap.com/article/partn…

Many of the world’s largest industries still run on emails and PDFs, and commercial insurance is no different. U.S. businesses alone spend hundreds of billions on it each year, yet the details often go unnoticed, with coverage understood as “the cost of doing business.”

Now and again you meet a founder and you just know, on the spot, that you want to back them. That’s a rare (and very good) day "at the office". Meeting @MarkSwan_ , Philipp Burda and Ivan Chalov was one of those days. At @sequoia, we believe the most important financial decisions in life will remain human-led. The right AI doesn’t replace advisors – it amplifies them. @neviswealth embodies that vision. Thrilled to support @neviswealth as they launch and announce their $40M raise with @sequoia, @ICONIQCapital and @RibbitCapital . They’re building the AI platform that automates admin so advisors can serve more families, with higher-quality advice. They are just getting started. 🙌

For the past five years we have been hosting Europe100 with our partners at Founders Forum Group, a gathering that brings together top founders and some of the greatest minds who care about Europe. This year we met in Tuscany, and the spirit of community and drive blew me away. I left inspired and with a sense of inevitability… 15 years ago the European tech ecosystem was nascent; ambitious founders were asking themselves what it would take to build $1B companies in Europe. Fast-forward to today: @Klarna just went public at $15B, @elevenlabs raised $100M at $6B, and @lovable set a record reaching $100M in revenue in 8 months – the fastest for any software company anywhere on the planet. We have proven that we can build world class companies in Europe. Now we need to show that we can build companies that go all the way – generational businesses that can thrive and compound for decades to come. Spending time with this group this weekend made me think that’s inevitable. “It’s not zero-sum,” one leading founder said this weekend. “The U.S. can win, AND Europe can win. We can have more Silicon Valleys.” It was fitting that we gathered in Tuscany, home of the renaissance, Michelangelo and Galileo, where art, science and engineering came together to push civilization forward. It’s fair to say that AI is igniting a new renaissance in the European tech ecosystem. Founders are ambitious, companies are growing and thriving, and talent density is higher than ever before. Thank you to all the founders who make Europe100 special. As a final thought, I can’t help but wonder… if Da Vinci lived today, would he be a European tech founder?

Doctors are using @EvidenceOpen millions of times every month to make better decisions at the point of care. This may be the fastest any technology product (outside of the iPhone) has been embraced by the healthcare industry... and this is only the beginning. sequoiacap.com/article/partn…