Luke deWilde

I think that the aspiration for Sequoia is not to be like a golf team. Everyone hit their ball, add up their scores, see what we get. It's the aspirations to be a basketball team. Either we win or we lose as a team. I think that the manifestation though, demanding and supportive, it's oftentimes on one side of the spectrum or the other. I don't... See more

What I try to look for, and I'll tell you how I look for these things, but I try to look for companies that are early and inevitable. This is the combination of words that I think about. Stripe did an amazing job of this.Their mission is to increase the GDP of the Internet. Cool. Most people probably believe it's inevitable, that the GDP of the... See more

ModelsText is the most advanced domain. However, natural language is hard to get right, and quality matters. Today, the models are decently good at generic short/medium-form writing (but even so, they are typically used for iteration or first drafts). Over time, as the models get better, we should expect to see higher quality outputs, longer-form... See more

"Peloton’s quest to become the Apple of fitness hamstrung the brand. Forgoing vertical integration, new content/software/hardware bundles are emerging. Whether Peloton pursues FaaS or not, open ecosystems will continue to gain traction."

Ticketmaster is launching blockchain-mediated event ticketing via NFTs, a long-discussed utility for NFTs. The firm already released over 5 million NFTs on Flow for Apollo Theater, The Black Crows, Gavin DeGraw and other event organizer clients.