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Sequoia Capital· Aug 25, 2026PodcastHuman Click Data Is a Bug: Rebuilding Search for a Web of AgentsParag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO and founder of Parallel Web Systems, argues that agents will query the web a thousand times more than people, and that both search infrastructure and the ad-supported internet have to be rebuilt for that customer.
53:44ENSequoia Capital· Aug 18, 2026PodcastThe Biggest Bug in Today’s Models Is That the Weights Never ChangeTuring Award winner Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed founded Oak Lab to build agents that keep learning after they ship — and they call synthetic data a big mistake.
48:55ENSequoia Capital· Jul 14, 2026PodcastAnthropic's Platform Grew Three Layers in a Year — and Tokens Now Have JobsKatelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang tell Sequoia's Training Data how Anthropic went from a stateless Messages API to knowledge, execution, and coordination — without trying to own the servers.
38:45ENSequoia Capital· Jun 16, 2026PodcastThe 25-agent town that became a Fortune 500 decision sandboxOn the day before Valentine's Day in a Stanford simulation, cafe owner Isabella decided to throw a party — no human wrote the plot.
51:09ENSequoia Capital· Jun 11, 2026PodcastBuild like the model will eat your harness in a yearLogan Kilpatrick, who leads Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, tells Sequoia's Sonya Huang why agent scaffolding is a 12-month asset, why coding already feels like narrow superintelligence, and why Google is optimizing for outcomes instead of eyeballs.
58:27ENSequoia Capital· Mar 24, 2026PodcastEven a dumber AI can win science if it never leaves the labGinkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly tells Sequoia why autonomous labs, not smarter models, will change how experimental science gets done.
39:47ENSequoia Capital· Jan 21, 2026PodcastThe Context at Step 14 Isn't in the CodeLangChain cofounder Harrison Chase on why long-horizon agents finally work—and why traces, harnesses, and first-draft workflows matter more than scaffolding.
35:45ENSequoia Capital· Aug 26, 2025PodcastSix Years of Revenue, Then Four Times That in Eight Monthsn8n CEO Jan Oberhauser tells Sequoia how two bets — becoming an AI-agent builder, then deleting the leads metric — turned a workflow tool into a default orchestration layer.
37:37ENSequoia Capital· Jul 22, 2025PodcastA dozen people, 28 minutes, and one shared desktopThe OpenAI trio behind ChatGPT Agent explain how Deep Research and Operator became a virtual computer that can reason for half an hour and still ask you before it spends money.
41:13ENSequoia Capital· Jul 11, 2025PodcastFrom 49 Multiplications to 48: DeepMind’s AI Rewrites a Fifty-Year Math RecordPushmeet Kohli explains how AlphaEvolve couples Gemini with evaluators to invent algorithms, prove old conjectures, and change which scientific problems are even worth attempting.
38:25ENSequoia Capital· May 27, 2025PodcastA thousand airplanes will never train an AI engineerFormer Airbus CTO Paul Eremenko explains why physical-world engineering still has no coding-AI moment, and how P-1 AI's agent Archie is supposed to get there anyway.
43:04ENSequoia Capital· Mar 25, 2025Podcast750 Million Excel Users, 30 Million Engineers: Wordware's Bet on Word ArtisansFilip Kozera tells Sequoia why English is the assembly language of LLMs, and why the people who win will be the ones who can encode taste into structured prompts.
32:46ENSequoia Capital· Feb 25, 2025PodcastDon't draw the flowchart: OpenAI's Deep Research team on training agents end to endIsa Fulford and Josh Tobin explain why Deep Research was trained with reinforcement learning on hard browsing tasks instead of a human-written graph of model calls.
52:30ENSequoia Capital· Jan 28, 2025PodcastMove 37 looked like a bug. LLMs still need their AlphaZero momentIoannis Antonoglou, from AlphaGo to Reflection AI, on self-play, reliability, and why compute can still buy intelligence.
1:03:07ENSequoia Capital· Nov 26, 2024PodcastReasoning Hasn't Budged in Two Years. Dust Still Saved a Customer 8,000 HoursDust co-founders Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu on multi-model agents, refusing to buy GPUs before product-market fit, and the jump from calculator tools to stochastic ones.
49:14ENSequoia Capital· Sep 17, 2024PodcastHumanoid robots fell from $1.5 million to $30,000. The GPT-3 moment is still a verbNvidia’s Jim Fan tells Sequoia how three kinds of data, a humanoid bet, and a System-1 motor-control model could unlock general-purpose robots.
1:12:31ENSequoia Capital· Aug 27, 2024PodcastA Bare Model Closes 35% of Airline Changes. Sierra's Agents Clear 70% of Real Tickets.Clay Bavor on why putting a raw LLM in front of customers does not math, and how AgentOS, supervisor agents, and outcome pricing change the arithmetic.
1:07:05ENSequoia Capital· Jul 16, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Combined Learning and Search. Language Models Only Did the First Half.Reflection AI's Misha Laskin tells Sequoia why prompted coding agents stall in the teens, and why the missing piece is still a ground-truth reward.
49:50ENSequoia Capital· Jun 18, 2024PodcastUnconstrained agents captivated Twitter. Custom ones are what ship.LangChain founder Harrison Chase tells Sequoia’s Training Data what an agent actually is, why AutoGPT stalled, and which cognitive architectures reach production.