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In 2008, I joined Foundation Capital as a General Partner because I thought it would be a…
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Narrative power in the AI era
Narrative power in the AI era
AI is both a technology and a story we’re telling I’ve been working in AI since 2006. Back then, we were using it to…
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What it takes to build AI agents that actually work
What it takes to build AI agents that actually work
Getting to 80% takes 20% of the effort. Getting to 99.
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The new rules for startup CEOs
The new rules for startup CEOs
How AI is changing startup leadership, and what founders can do about it. Startup CEOs today are caught between two…
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Purpose is a verb
Purpose is a verb
The case for living your purpose, not just pondering it. Every summer, I set aside time for self-reflection and reading.
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Reasoning + RL: A new recipe for AI apps
Reasoning + RL: A new recipe for AI apps
I explore why forward-looking AI builders have moved from RAG to reasoning + RL and share the roadmap they’re charting…
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Meta’s bet on Scale & the new AI data paradigm
Meta’s bet on Scale & the new AI data paradigm
I explore how the data needed to advance AI has changed, and what it will take to push AI to the next frontier. The big…
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AI's next frontier is the agentic web
AI's next frontier is the agentic web
What the latest moves by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI tell us about AI’s future. A year ago, nearly all the focus in…
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Scale still matters - but product, ecosystems, and value capture now matter just as much.
Scale still matters - but product, ecosystems, and value capture now matter just as much.
In January, DeepSeek surprised the tech industry by releasing a model - R1 - that matched GPT-4-level performance at a…
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NVIDIA’s "AI Factory" Bet
NVIDIA’s "AI Factory" Bet
I break down NVIDIA’s push to own the full AI stack - from silicon to software - and explore what it means for startups…
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Thirty years of betting on day zero
Thirty years of betting on day zero
This Tuesday, we announced our Fund 11: $600M dedicated to backing founders at day zero. It's both a milestone and a…
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What a crazy week of AI innovation at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas! These events become the tangible manifestation of months of hard work by Arize AI…
What a crazy week of AI innovation at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas! These events become the tangible manifestation of months of hard work by Arize AI…
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Huge thanks to Renuka Kumar, CFA, Silicon Valley Bank for hosting the Foundation Capital Finance/Operations team for a San Jose Sharks game 🙏
Huge thanks to Renuka Kumar, CFA, Silicon Valley Bank for hosting the Foundation Capital Finance/Operations team for a San Jose Sharks game 🙏
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Fun #AI conversation with Mohit Aron, early Google employee, and co-founder of Nutanix & Cohesity, and now onto his 3rd startup.
Fun #AI conversation with Mohit Aron, early Google employee, and co-founder of Nutanix & Cohesity, and now onto his 3rd startup.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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Activities and Societies: General Secretary, Student Affairs Council
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The "father of hyperconvergence" who built Nutanix ($20B) and Cohesity drops truth bombs on AI hype, India's innovation gap, and what's actually…
The "father of hyperconvergence" who built Nutanix ($20B) and Cohesity drops truth bombs on AI hype, India's innovation gap, and what's actually…
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We’re proud to share that Fast Company has named Turing Co-Founder & CEO Jonathan Siddharth one of the 20 Innovators Shaping the Future of AI in…
We’re proud to share that Fast Company has named Turing Co-Founder & CEO Jonathan Siddharth one of the 20 Innovators Shaping the Future of AI in…
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QualityKiosk is pleased to announce our partnership with Arize AI, bringing advanced AI observability to the forefront of enterprise transformation.…
QualityKiosk is pleased to announce our partnership with Arize AI, bringing advanced AI observability to the forefront of enterprise transformation.…
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People went ballistic on X when MIT’s State of AI Report claimed 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver ROI. The stat isn't false, but the…
People went ballistic on X when MIT’s State of AI Report claimed 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver ROI. The stat isn't false, but the…
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T2D3 (tripling to $2M, then doubling 3x) was the SaaS growth benchmark for a decade. It got startups from $1M to ~$70M ARR over 5 years. We’re seeing…
T2D3 (tripling to $2M, then doubling 3x) was the SaaS growth benchmark for a decade. It got startups from $1M to ~$70M ARR over 5 years. We’re seeing…
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Attending the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit next week? 📍 Join Ikigai’s Solution Provider Session: You’re Planning with Partial Forecasts –…
Attending the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit next week? 📍 Join Ikigai’s Solution Provider Session: You’re Planning with Partial Forecasts –…
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The moment that first defined leadership for me involved a leaking pipe, a factory full of fumes, and a man who told me to stay put: When I joined…
The moment that first defined leadership for me involved a leaking pipe, a factory full of fumes, and a man who told me to stay put: When I joined…
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CISOs, Founders and CEOs — Our final CyberSeed luncheon of 2025 is shaping up to be something special, and I’d love for you to be in the room. When:…
CISOs, Founders and CEOs — Our final CyberSeed luncheon of 2025 is shaping up to be something special, and I’d love for you to be in the room. When:…
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Heading to re:Invent next week. If you want to unlock the value of your enterprise data in AI systems without taking on privacy or security…
Heading to re:Invent next week. If you want to unlock the value of your enterprise data in AI systems without taking on privacy or security…
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