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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 27:26 Harry Stebbings Is there a meeting for, like, just Pat and Alfred to, like, sit by a fireplace and pontificate, um, or, you know, strategize?
  • ▶ 49:45 Harry Stebbings What about Pat? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:26:14 Julien Bek David Kahn talking about the six hundred billion dollar question, uh, and simultaneously Pat and Sonia are saying, this is AGI, you know.

OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:16 Matan Grinberg Retrospectively, I know like Alfred and Pat and Roloff, they were all like in there, they were all asking questions, and I was probably dismissing some of them,

The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14:49 Harry Stebbings See, me and Pat Grady, Pat Grady was like one of the first people I met in Venture, and he was an associate, and I was like a seventeen-year-old, and like, I, I laughed with Pat. 4 times in the scene

OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:11 Harry Stebbings And, um, you know, Pat and Alfred had recently taken over the leadership from Roloff. 2 times in the scene

Why Margins Don't Matter for Early-Stage Startups | Gili Raanan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 28, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 49:14 Harry Stebbings So funny, I remember speaking to Pat Grady about the great companies that Score invest in, and I was saying about,
  • ▶ 54:53 Harry Stebbings Like, if I'm fortunate to have people like you or Neil Major or Pat Grady as my mentors, who, who, who are yours? 2 times in the scene

Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 51:41 Harry Stebbings Again, I meet so many investors, and I actually find not that many have the insight that Mamoon has, that Neil Mater has, that Pat Grady have.
  • ▶ 52:58 Harry Stebbings You've got Pat Grady at Sequoia, you've got David George, and then you've got 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:56 Lucas Swisher I met him before the Series A that Pat did.

Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition) Jan 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 19, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Harry Stebbings I've heard many great things for a while, because it was Sarah Guo that found you first, before Pat, I heard. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:38 Harry Stebbings But, but two, I, I just want to start actually on something that shows a little bit about your character, and it was a story that Pat told me. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:03 Harry Stebbings In terms of the people assessment, Pat told me that you're world-class at understanding people.
  • ▶ 1:08:24 Harry Stebbings Pat, like, tweeted, like, hey, if you are, like, ambitious and you want to learn about working in AI applications, there's no better place to work than Harvey. 2 times in the scene

Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 31, 2025 · 4 mentions

a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings We saw Rodolf Botha moving out as steward, uh, after a three-year tenure, and being replaced by Pat Grady and Alfred Lynn, which was, I think, quite surprising news to the venture ecosystem.
  • ▶ 5:28 Harry Stebbings On early and Pat Grady on growth.

Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 49:33 Everett Randle Like if you look at Pat Grady, does Pat Grady think of himself as a growth investor? 8 times in the scene

Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings I remember Pat Grady once saying to me that his biggest challenge is that when he does the deal, everyone else wants to put in money at double or treble the price, and that really stuck with me. 3 times in the scene

BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:07 Harry Stebbings I remember Pat Grady saying to me, dude, the biggest challenge that I have is that I do a deal and the next day someone offers them three times the money at three times the price.

Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:54 Harry Stebbings I speak to Pat, Andrew Reid a lot, and they say that founders love your coaching, mentorship advice.

Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:51 Harry Stebbings I'll always remember Pat Grady saying to me a brilliant thing, which is he's like, people think that, you know, we're so successful, and he's so humble, which is why I love him so much, because people think we're so successful.

Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Peter, Chathan, Sarah, Bruce Dunleavy, I spoke to, um, Pat Grady, um, the Brex founders.

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings Listen, Julian Beck, Pat Grady, two of my closest buddies said, this is the show that we have to do.
  • ▶ 5:46 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Pat, my big bro, before this, and when he gives me advice, I've learned just to take it, um, he told me I had to spend a good amount of time on growing up, actually, and the move to the U.S.
  • ▶ 27:01 Harry Stebbings I spoke to, uh, uh, Pat.
  • ▶ 45:05 Elias Torres Let's see what Pat supports, right? 3 times in the scene

Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Yeah, Amini, listen, I spoke to Brian, I spoke to Pat, I spoke to Jay Simons, Claire Hughes-Johnson.
  • ▶ 29:54 Harry Stebbings Saying like easy to use product, Pat Grady told me that I had to ask this one, which was when you have an incremental dollar, how do you think about where to invest it?

Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Listen, I've heard so many good things from Pat Grady, from Nico, from Anil, from Scott Sandel even, so thank you so much for joining me.

Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 25, 2024 · 4 mentions

Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2024 · 7 mentions

Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 16, 2024 · 1 mention

Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 5, 2024 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I'm so excited for this because I've heard for a while from Pat Grady, no one works as hard as Mr. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:19 Harry Stebbings So I was chatting to Pat before about
  • ▶ 51:25 David Cahn Pat Grady is a slugger. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:14 Harry Stebbings I asked this, I think of both Pat and Doug, which is like, it is a very, uh, challenging environment for someone new to come into, but you also want to enable someone to feel comfortable to share their thoughts, their wisdom, their… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:53 Harry Stebbings I did this with Pat and he gave me answers. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:07 Harry Stebbings Pat always tells me, like, I'm good in the morning.

Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2024 · 8 mentions

Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:17 Chandra Narayanan Of the people that are in the group is like you have all the way from, you know, I mean, during those times is Mike Moritz and Jim gets and, and rule off and, and Pat, and of course so many other people.

Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 15, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:05 Brian Halligan We spent a bunch of time with Jim and then he handed me off to an up and coming partner named Pat Grady, who I think, you know, and super nice guy. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:08:27 Harry Stebbings Um, uh, can I also, we mentioned Pat, we mentioned our love for Pat. 4 times in the scene

Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 10, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:12 Harry Stebbings So many good things from Pat and Danny actually at Sequoia for many years, so thank you so much for doing this today.

Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2023 · 1 mention

Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:38 Harry Stebbings I always remember Pat Grady at Sequoia, who's a great friend of mine, said after six months, Roloff said to him, do you need to see a vocal coach?

Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 17, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings I just, I don't know, I sit down with your Bill Gurley's of the world or your Pat Grady's at Sequoia, and you're just like, they really fucking know what they're doing. 2 times in the scene

Clem Delangue: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in AI; Elon's Threat to Sue OpenAI | E1013 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:49 Harry Stebbings The other truth is I think there's a utility value to board members that resembles a barbell, which is like Fenton, Gurley at the A, um, you know, Alfred Lynn at the A, Roloff Botha at the A, amazing Pat Grady at the A, great, and then…

Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:32 Harry Stebbings Same with Pat Grady and Orkney Both at Sequoia, but he did 15 lessons from 10 years at Sequoia.

HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:17 Harry Stebbings Listen, you brought up, I just spoke to Pat about it, so I have to ask, the culture decks that you put together, what is the process with which you go through to put them together?

20VC Exclusive: Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru Unveils Sequoia's New 8 Week Accelerator, Arc | Biggest Takeaways from Working with Doug Leone and Roelof Botha | The Journey From a Small Town In Romania to Partner @ Sequoia Mar 21, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings And I also cannot thank Doug Leone, George Robson, Pat Grady, Ravi Gupta, Sean Maguire, and Robert Visionaries enough.
  • ▶ 3:42 Harry Stebbings I got calls from Doug, I got calls from Pat, I got calls from Ravi. 2 times in the scene

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital Feb 2, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity Sep 14, 2021 · 3 mentions

20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management Feb 22, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings This schedule was a total team effort, so huge thanks to Frederick Karras at Okta, Ryan Carlson at Okta, Pat Grady at Sequoia, Vinod Kostler, and Neil Bushry.
  • ▶ 2:35 Harry Stebbings Ryan Carlson, Frederick Karras, Ben Horace, Pat Grady.
  • ▶ 6:48 Harry Stebbings And I spoke to Pat before the show, and he mentioned that I had to ask about the discussion with your wife when you came home.

20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success Oct 26, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady, Ravi Gupta, and Colleen at Pendulum, as well as Julia and Kevin Haas at Eventbrite for some amazing questions and suggestions today.
  • ▶ 28:04 unnamed speaker I mean, I remember when I had Pat on the show for the first time, you actually recommended to him, he told me that he's the vocal coach, because he didn't speak for so long in any internal meeting, which I always remember. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts Sep 14, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Before that, Ravi spent 10 years as a director at KKR, and I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady, Mike Moritz, Will Gabrick, Mathilde Collin, and Sagar Sangvi for some amazing questions and suggestions today.

20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures Dec 16, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:53 Adam D'Augelli And then Pat Grady at Sequoia, who I know you've had on here before, who is a kind of a peer in age, but I think has incredible depth of knowledge on being a good board member and partner to CEOs. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture Aug 26, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to the wonderful Pat Grady for the intro to Mike's 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:42 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I want to say a huge thank you again to Pat Grady at Sikora for the intro today.

20VC: Why Self-Driving Is Still Under-Hyped in The Medium To Long Term, What Will The Ownership Mechanism Be Both In Physical Assets & Data and How To Assemble A World Class Exec Team As A Young Founder with Alex Rodrigues, Founder & CEO @ Embark Jul 5, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings But to our episode today, and I really like to have synchronicity between episodes, and if you listen to our fantastic discussion with Pat Grady on Monday at Sequoia, he discussed his latest investment, and I couldn't be more excited to… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:59 Harry Stebbings As I just said, I heard so many great things, both from Matt and from Pat at Sequoia. 2 times in the scene

20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check May 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings I'd also want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady at Sequoia, Maynard Webb, Mike Maples at Floodgate, and Dharmesh Shah for such fantastic questions and suggestions today.

20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing Sep 24, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:11 Harry Stebbings Now, Sarah, you know me, so many things for me to unpack there, and you mentioned your time at Pinterest, so let's start on that and the operating time, because we had Pat Grady at Sequoia on the show before, and he said that never has the… 2 times in the scene

20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital Jun 25, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:11 Harry Stebbings We've had the likes of Jeremy Levine and Pat Grady promoting it, and then some others not so promoting it. 2 times in the scene

20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital Jan 10, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:01 Harry Stebbings Pat Grady at Sequoia stated on the show that with regards to operating versus non-operating backgrounds and experiences in their utility, he said, never before have we seen a faster rate of decay on operating experiences. 2 times in the scene

20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely Dec 15, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Harry Stebbings A huge thanks to Pat at Sequoia for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Matt. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:54 Matt Straz Well, I should give a lot of credit for this to Pat Grady at Sequoia and to my entire board, because they've seen this movie before.
  • ▶ 29:10 Harry Stebbings Likewise, I want to say a huge thank you to Pat Grady at Sequoia, and Paul Martino at Bullpen, for the intro to Matt today, without which this episode would not have been possible.

20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment Jun 26, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:13 Harry Stebbings One entrance, I do want to quickly dive on, on the operational experience there, just because we had Pat Grady from Socorro on the show recently, and he said that
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