Everything's changed. Here's how to reach $100m at venture speed.
AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century
Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.
AI Was Made for RevOps
A new wave of GenAI and AI agents opens the door to faster, smarter, more scalable revenue teams—and higher revenue growth.
AI Agents Will Be The Key To Achieving ROI From AI
AI agents are emerging as a crucial type of application for enterprises looking to derive more value from their AI investments in the near term.
Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
There's lots of reasons to believe the "hyperscaler" model of AI can never be profitable, and not just because of its gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money with every new customer and every new use, and they lose more money with each generation of their products):
In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…
Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human
Simulated human behavior companies raise millions
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence | IFP
Apply to our rolling effort to find, scope, and build the most important projects to prepare the world for advanced AI
When will average people feel AI’s impact?
We’re <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
