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Sequoia Capital
Company blog · sequoiacap.com/article · on HN as jacquescstartupsaibusiness
Sequoia Capital is the company blog at sequoiacap.com, writing about startups, ai and business. Since 2007, 199 different Hacker News readers have linked it 257 times, most often “Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex (September 2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 8 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sequoia's Stories articles as startup guides on pricing, business plans, onboarding and product-market fit, plus its AI market essays and a contested FTX/SBF profile.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
Most-linked posts?
- Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex (September 2022)12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-11-09
- Ideas9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-08-19
- AI's $600B Question8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-06-20
- Generative AI: A Creative New World (Sequoia Capital)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-09-19
- The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-04-09
- What Sequoia Looks For5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2007-06-07
- Services: The New Software5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-03-06
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-05
- Sequoia Open Source Fellowship4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-04
- Developer Tools 2.04 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-24
What Hacker News says?
Sure. Travelling lots led to low equity, then I got involved with a business that went nowhere which led to “having nothing”, followed by cofounding another business (zero money investment but plenty of time investment). My income went to nearly zero and my spending went very low for a couple of years: for example I was living in an abandoned building with some dodgy people. I still had backstops (I could get a job,…
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on “Meta lays off 11,000 people”Submitted Pricing Your Product as a story · 474 points
HN discussionSequoia Capital | Full Time | Platform Engineer | https://www.sequoiacap.com We're growing our technology team to shape the future of investing. Hiring right now for a Platform Engineer, an Application Engineer, and a Security Analyst. Our stack includes Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript (Vue, React), Postgres, Spark/Scala, Nginx, AWS & Heroku. More info here: https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQuZBdP2 Menlo Park prefer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted AI's $600B Question as a story · 397 points
HN discussionExcept tech is nothing like oil. It's a knowledge based industry and the pace of innovation rapidly keeps breaking barriers to entry. It effectively enables a lot of other industries to move swiftly and get a lot done with fewer resources [0]. A rising tide lifts all boats. Instagram scaled to 30M users with 13 engs [1], and WhatsApp to half a billion with 32 [2]. Oculus was started by a then 17yr old Palmer Luckey…
Comment linking /article/four-numbers-that-explain
on “Downsides to working at a tech giant”Submitted The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework as a story · 347 points
HN discussionWhatsApp, similarly, had 30+ employees when they got acquired [0]. They built the fastest IM on the market with 450M+ users sending 1B+ messages everyday, and at one point surpassed Facebook in terms of number of images uploaded. The engs they had were world-class, so really, I think, saying microservices (or latest-fad) get in the way etc is disingenuous since you also require world-class talent to begin with (if y…
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on “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime”Submitted Don Valentine has died as a story · 284 points
HN discussionWarning, this is a long comment! (I’m trying to stick to sourced facts here and not overstate what they mean) I went down a rabbit hole after watching Dylan Patel on Dwarkesh today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV26V1UvkJw I was initially just surprised by how bullish Dylan is on OpenAI/Anthropic and how bearish he is on China, despite Chinese labs getting closer to US SOTA while offering inference at dramaticall…
Comment linking /podcast/dylan-patel-of-semianalysis-why-hardware-software-co-design-is-ais-real-100x
on “OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell”- ct · 2012-09-14
Submitted Ideas as a story · 213 points
HN discussion Pricing sounds so simple but it is a surprisingly complex thing to get "right". I read an article from Sequoia recently that I thought was very well written. Not sure if it's relatively new or if it's been there for ages. I recommend it anyways, great read. # The Sequoia Guide to Pricing https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pricing-your-product/
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on “Ask HN: How do you set prices?”Submitted Trial week: Our hiring secret as a story · 122 points
HN discussionFirst model from them, but I think they released some sort of agent last year? https://sequoiacap.com/article/reflection-ai-asimov
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on “Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model”Submitted Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex (September 2022) as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSequoia did a nauseating, hilarious puff piece on him a couple months ago and this guy sounds like Adam Neumann’s second coming. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlig...
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on “FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall”Submitted Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling as a story · 115 points
HN discussionI highly recommend reading this article, from 50 days ago . So many humorous quotes to be had in that article. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlig... edit: archive https://archive.ph/GQkCp
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on “FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall”Submitted Introducing Arc: Outliers Wanted as a story · 83 points
HN discussionAs of August 2025, Zed had 150K monthly active users. That was before it supported Windows; the number is much higher now (although not publicly reported). I'd be very surprised to learn that any other Rust UI crate has more real-world usage than GPUI! Source: https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-zed-the-ai-po...
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on “Rust cross-platform GPUI components”Submitted How to Present to Investors as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSequoia Capital | Full Time | Software Engineer | https://www.sequoiacap.com We're growing our technology team to shape the future of investing. Hiring right now for an Application Engineer, to work closely with our US Investors to help automate their workflows. Our stack includes Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript (Vue, React), Postgres, Spark/Scala, Nginx, AWS & Heroku. Menlo Park preferred. REMOTE can be considere…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted Interview with David Vélez, founder of Brazil’s Nubank as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSequoia Capital | Full Time | Menlo Park | Senior Security Analyst | https://www.sequoiacap.com From idea to IPO and beyond, Sequoia helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. We're looking for a curious, methodical Senior Security Analyst to join our team. The definition of success in this role is simple - continually reduce our risk and keep Sequoia safe. You’ll take a leadership role with…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”Submitted Sequoia Capital's redesigned website: a search bar as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSesame | Full-time | SF/NYC/Bellevue | On-site | https://www.sesame.com/ Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice personal agents part of our daily lives. Read more from Sequoia: https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted YC Gets 11% of Sequoia's Frontpage as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing it. I also recommend 'Writing Business Plan by Sequoia'[1]. I have been collecting storytelling resources from legendary founders and vcs for years. Feel free to check it out and download it if you found it useful! [2][3] [1] https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/writing-a-business-plan/ [2] https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/tree/gh-pages/%... [3] https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-ba…
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on “How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck”Submitted Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex – and Maybe You Should Too (Sep 2022) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionHe got funding. So, I guess he can hire some people to help him. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-fastapi-l...
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on “Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework”Submitted Generative AI's Act Two as a story · 25 points
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