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Will Quist

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Will Quist

@wquist

Partner @slow. I underwrite reasonably unreasonable futures, find where the value will concentrate, and help build the companies that capture it.

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Joined May 2009

Will Quist
@wquist
Aug 10
Don't know these guys, but fuck yah...
Adam Goldstein
@adamgoldstein13
Aug 10
Today, we announced a watershed deal to acquire three companies from @Boeing, @WiskAero , @Insitu_Inc, and @skygridai, in exchange for Boeing taking a strategic equity stake in @flyarcher and collaborating with us. After closing, our product portfolio will span piloted air taxis,
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Will Quist
@wquist
Aug 10
In luck based games (which company building most definitely is), the only edge you can derive is decision making process.
Kathryn Wu
@kathrynwu1
Aug 7
Every founder should read Thinking in Bets. A bad outcome doesn’t always mean you made a bad decision.
Will Quist
@wquist
Aug 10
Every security franchise is a lease on the thing it was built to sit on. When the lease runs out, so do they. CrowdStrike and Palo Alto are Symantec this time. Not because they're badly run. Because the thing they were built to watch isn't gonna really matter soon.
Will Quist
@wquist
Aug 7
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Kathryn Wu
@kathrynwu1
Aug 7
Every founder should read Thinking in Bets. A bad outcome doesn’t always mean you made a bad decision.
Will Quist
@wquist
Aug 6
Not shockingly, since Sequoia is the best to ever do it, this is the right way to get to 'yes' on AI investments right now.
Madhav Chanchani
@madhavchanchani
Aug 6
How much money could Sequoia invest in Anthropic and still survive if a big bet went south? The answer that its top partners came up with is $2.5 billion.