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I’ve started paying attention when my smartest Harvard friends make “irrational” career decisions.
Weekly red-eyes. Pay cuts. Prestige trade-offs.
There’s usually something there.
Abhishek Malani
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Abhishek Malani
@abhishekm1636
- Prediction markets are now mainstream. You should be able to trade on anything, anywhere … and now you can. We’re excited to announce that @sequoia has led Kalshi’s latest round at a $5B valuation, supporting the team’s mission to build the exchange to price everything. HugeKalshi recently raised $300M+ at $5B from Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm and others. Since then, we've grown over 3x, hit $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And today…Kalshi goes global. 140+ countries. 1 liquidity pool.
00:00 - Hiring is broken. Recruiters spend hours sourcing, scoring & chasing candidates. Juicebox is the first true AI recruiting partner: it scans profiles, scores against your criteria & automates outreach. Already used by thousands. @sequoia is leading their Series A 🚀Excited to announce Juicebox has raised $36M in funding, including our Series A led by Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) - to help the world’s leading teams win the talent war. More below 🧵
00:00 - Many of the brightest engineers are choosing risk over "safe" paths. For decades, top talent from Harvard & MIT followed predictable routes: quant funds, big tech, PhD programs. But something's shifting... Last week @Sequoia hosted our first-ever NYC Startup Trek with 35
- Wild how motivating it is when the people leading are also the hardest workers. Excited to be part of this new era with @gradypb and @Alfred_Lin1/ We @sequoia have always said that we’re only as good as our next investment. It’s also true that we’re only as good as our next generation @Alfred_Lin and I get to work with the best generation yet:
- A new generation of Sequoia stewards
- This is why you do deep research for fantasy football drafts. Thanks @Kalshi
- Having a lot of fun making receipt to recipe, Polaroid converter, and weight tracking mini apps on @wabiwhat if the app store was social? with wabi, it is. introducing the social app store where you can instantly see what apps your friends are creating, loving, and remixing
00:00 - Have you noticed we’ve reached the point where people DoorDash from a block away? It’s gone too far.
- Just had my first Abhishek-to-Abhishek email exchange and I can’t help but wonder if all the David’s and Michael’s out there feel this same little thrill
- At this rate, startups are going to price the finance bros out of SoHo.
- SF somehow has gorgeous nature and the highest AI density per square foot.
- @Xbow's automated pentesting is a game changer. If you’re a startup that needs security but can't afford weeks-long pentest cycles. You've just gotta close the customer, get certified, and move on.No scoping. No waiting. No delay. XBOW Pentest On-Demand is live: → Expert-level testing → Real, validated results in 5 days 🚀 Start today at xbow.com/pentest 🗓️Live demo tomorrow xbow.com/pentest-webinar
00:00 - The problem with CLEAR is that it relies on exclusivity. The bigger it gets the worse the value prop gets vs. the regular line.
