Pat Grady became one of only two people chosen to help lead Sequoia in just the fourth leadership change in the firm's 54-year history, building his track record with companies like Zoom, Snowflake, ServiceNow, and OpenAI, and publicly predicting roughly $10 trillion valuations for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. He also stands out for tying Sequoia's investment returns directly to scholarships and cancer research funding, and for a rugged, outdoors-focused personal image—shaped by his Wyoming roots and early construction jobs—that's unusual among top venture investors.
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Sequoia Arc is a 5-week "catalyst" program that teaches "outlier founders" the Sequoia way of building companies through story-focused curriculum blocks, substantial upfront checks of $500K-$1M, and field trips to legendary Sequoia-backed companies like Klarna for hands-on CEO access. The program uses Sequoia's internal data science tools to find non-obvious founders outside traditional tech hubs and integrates participants into Sequoia's proprietary founder network and ongoing operating platform rather than ending after demo day.
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