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Congratulations to my better half @gradypb, the new Senior Steward of @sequoia along with the wonderful @Alfred_Lin. Investing firms must be led by great investors. Sequoia’s motto at one time was “We are only as good as our next investment.” If that’s true, the firm is in good hands. Pat has the scary-good ability to identify both the phase shifts and the platform companies within them (ServiceNow, Zoom, HubSpot, Okta, Snowflake in the cloud era, Harvey, OpenEvidence and OpenAI in the AI era). He sets the gold standard for growth investing. Venture is an industry populated with incomplete information, high stakes, long feedback loops and big dollars. It takes extraordinary character to approach venture with clarity, aggression, integrity, intellectual honesty, and the mindset of a servant leader. There is no leader in venture that inspires as much admiration and loyalty, through a combination of being asymmetrically right and always doing what is right. Congrats, Pat, Alfred and Sequoia. *Professional investing opinion. He is also very handsome and athletic, and a great dad.