Fireside Chat: Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital) on AI & Visual Tech with Evan Nisselson (LDV Capital)

Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha and LDV Capital’s Evan Nisselson discussed trends and early-stage investment opportunities in businesses leveraging visual technologies and AI.
Roelof has spent over 20 years building companies in Silicon Valley. He began within the walls of nascent PayPal, where he joined in March 2000 while completing his MBA at Stanford. He became CFO in 2001 and led the company through both its IPO in early 2002 and the subsequent acquisition by eBay. Roelof joined Sequoia in 2003 to help founders build enduring businesses. In 2017, he assumed leadership of Sequoia Capital's US/Europe business and became a Steward of the Sequoia Partnership. Roelof is a Director of 23andMe, Block, Ethos, Inside.com, Landis, mmhmm, MongoDB, Natera, Pendulum Therapeutics, and Unity Technologies, and recently led Sequoia's investment in Meeno. Previously, he was a Director of companies that include KZbin, Tumblr, Xoom, Eventbrite, and Evernote. He also led Sequoia's investment in Instagram.
Here’s what Roelof said about our 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit: "It was fun to speak at the LDV Vision Summit and to dream about the future with Evan. I am always inspired by founders harnessing AI to create the next breakthrough in visual technologies."
Links:
About Roelof Botha: www.sequoiacap.com/people/roe...
Roelof Botha of Sequoia Says 'To Be Successful in This Business, You Have to Be Contrarian and Right': www.ldv.co/blog/roelof-botha-...
About Evan Nisselson: www.ldv.co/about/evan
LDV Capital: www.ldv.co/
LDV Capital invests in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep, technical teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis.
Our first Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2014 has become known to top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs as the premier global gathering in visual tech. In 2024, due to the virtual nature of the 10th LDV Vision Summit, it was attended by hundreds of people from at least 30 countries.
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