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Sequoia Capital· Sep 15, 2026PodcastThe Bridge From Model to Workflow Is a Trillion-Dollar BusinessBox CEO Aaron Levie argues that the money in this cycle sits in the messy gap between frontier models and real enterprise work — and that coding's overnight diffusion will not repeat for everyone else.
38:24ENSequoia Capital· May 19, 2026PodcastServal's Bet: Keep ServiceNow's Primitives, Take Humans Out of the BuildJake Stauch tells Sequoia's Pat Grady how a two-year-old ITSM startup uses codegen agents, boring enterprise controls, and "fewer, better" hiring to rebuild employee support for the AI era.
31:26ENSequoia Capital· Apr 14, 2026PodcastChatGPT Opened 65 Pages to Buy a Shower HeadProfound CEO James Cadwallader argues that the internet's front door is the same, but an agent now walks through it, and marketing has to be rewritten for that visitor.
51:56ENSequoia Capital· Feb 3, 2026PodcastInsurance Spends $70 Billion on BPOs. Pace Wants 80% Gross Margins InsteadJamie Cuffe tells Sequoia's Training Data how Pace is turning insurance back-office work into agentic process outsourcing—and why every one of its pilots has reached production.
38:21ENSequoia Capital· Dec 16, 2025PodcastHow a Weekend Webcam Came to See 90 Billion Miles a YearSamsara CEO Sanjit Biswas on edge inference, messy road data, and why physical AI only counts once it is installed.
44:47ENSequoia Capital· Oct 14, 2025PodcastThe Last Mile Is Where Contact-Center AI Gets RealCresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia's Doug Leone on why 17 to 20 million agents, legacy systems, and last-mile integration will decide who wins customer experience.
59:43ENSequoia Capital· Sep 30, 2025PodcastGoose is writing its own pull requests: how Block is trying to save a quarter of the weekCTO Dhanji Prasanna tells Sequoia how an open-source agent, a functional reorg, and a weekly hours-saved metric are turning Block into an AI-first company.
44:49ENSequoia Capital· Sep 23, 2025PodcastCompanies Keep Asking for AI. Then They Send It Back.Agency founder Elias Torres on why businesses freeze at imperfect answers, and why his third startup aims for a billion in revenue with fewer than 100 people.
50:00ENSequoia Capital· Sep 2, 2025PodcastCrosby Bills by the Document, Not the Hour, and Turns Contracts Around in Under an HourThe founders of an AI-native law firm explain why they became lawyers with engineers at the next desk instead of shipping legal software, and how deal velocity became the product.
30:05ENSequoia Capital· Aug 19, 2025Podcast100 Signups, 95 Drop-offs: How Gamma Turned AI Slides Into a $50 Million BusinessGamma founder Jon Noronha tells Sequoia's Training Data how a park-bench idea, image models, and relentless A/B testing built a cash-flow-positive visual storytelling platform.
42:05ENSequoia Capital· May 20, 2025PodcastAI Can Prep the Meeting in 30 Seconds. It Still Can't Sign the Contract.Gong founder Amit Bendov on why sales AI will eat admin work, not the close, and why CRM is not going anywhere.
47:49ENSequoia Capital· May 6, 2025PodcastWorkday Is Onboarding AI Agents the Way It Onboards PeopleWorkday CEO Carl Eschenbach on turning a 70-million-person system of record into the ledger for a mixed workforce of humans and digital workers.
55:40ENSequoia Capital· Apr 29, 2025PodcastTo Solve All Diseases, Isomorphic Labs Needs a Half-Dozen AlphaFoldsMax Jaderberg on turning DeepMind's game-playing research into a general AI engine for drug design—and why prediction alone cannot search a 10^60 molecular universe.
45:30ENSequoia Capital· Apr 22, 2025PodcastA $20,000 AI Agent Replacing a $90,000 SDR: Manny Medina on Pricing in the Agent EraA fully loaded human SDR costs $70,000 to $90,000 a year; one AI SDR pitch is $20,000 per agent for 80% of the work, plus a bonus when targets are hit.
1:11:05ENSequoia Capital· Apr 1, 2025PodcastThe Man Who Took HubSpot CRM to $40 Million Says the Data Model Has to Be Thrown OutDay.ai founder Christopher O’Donnell tells Sequoia’s Pat Grady why classic CRM is compressed pixel art, why full self-driving scared his users, and why every line of code has to make every other line more valuable.
54:10ENSequoia Capital· Mar 11, 2025PodcastHarvey Built Legal AI for the Work the Next Model Still Cannot DoCEO Winston Weinberg on citations, process data, and the unscalable tactics that won over century-old law firms.
1:04:52ENSequoia Capital· Mar 4, 2025PodcastThe Consumer Playbook That Put Medical AI in 100,000 Exam RoomsOpenEvidence CEO Daniel Nadler explains how a free App Store product, trained only on peer-reviewed literature, reached as much as a quarter of U.S. physicians in a year.
52:06ENSequoia Capital· Jan 21, 2025PodcastLinkedIn spent five years on graph neural nets. She wants any company to see value in four weeksKumo co-founder Hema Raghavan argues that the graph was always sitting in your warehouse tables — and that a SQL-like predict clause is how ordinary companies finally get to use it.
1:00:05ENSequoia Capital· Jan 14, 2025PodcastIf Someone Builds a Better Spark Product, We Deserve to LoseIon Stoica on how Databricks turned academic open source into a data-and-AI company — and which problems he thinks will matter more tomorrow than today.
51:38ENSequoia Capital· Nov 19, 2024PodcastClay Wants to Be a Guitar, Not a Microwave, for Go-to-Market TeamsKareem Amin tells Sequoia’s Alfred Lin why Clay is building a system of action for growth rather than an AI that replaces SDRs.
44:48ENSequoia Capital· Oct 29, 2024PodcastEnterprise Google Failed for Twenty Years. A Search Veteran Finally Made It Work.Glean CEO Arvind Jain on why company search is harder than the public web, why RAG lives or dies on retrieval, and what work looks like when every employee has an AI assistant.
59:30ENSequoia Capital· Oct 8, 2024PodcastGPT-4 Gets Half Your Data Questions Wrong. Snowflake's Answer Is Systems DesignUsing an off-the-shelf model on enterprise data yields about 45% reliability—one wrong answer out of every two.
51:36ENSequoia Capital· Jul 23, 2024PodcastKlarna's AI Took 700 Customer-Service Jobs. The Secret Was the ManualCEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski tells Sequoia how an OpenAI guinea-pig bet, a dispute-queue Slack message, and documentation written for an amnesiac employee produced $40 million of profit.
1:00:28ENSequoia Capital· Jul 9, 2024PodcastScaling Laws Aren't Done. Don't Lock Yourself Into Yesterday's Architecture.Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on why the exponential is still compounding, why inference will dwarf training, and why a language model is the world's crappiest database.