Mike Sigal

On the latest Sequoia Capital Training Data episode, Replit founder Amjad Masad shares his vision for transforming how software is built and who gets to build it. CC: David Cahn Amjad draws inspiration from open source philosophy, believing we can create accessible, elegant experiences from the complex ecosystem of developer tools, empowering the bazaar in front of the cathedral to thrive. This approach has driven Replit's evolution from a coding education platform to a comprehensive environment where anyone can turn ideas into working applications. With 40 million users today Amjad is working to democratize software creation for a billion people globally. From students in rural India to operations teams at century-old companies, Replit is enabling people to solve problems through programming without getting lost in technical complexity. Listen here: YouTube: https://seq.vc/557 Apple: https://seq.vc/916 Spotify: https://seq.vc/w64

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Founders need conviction capital and long-term alignment. Web3 is rapidly maturing as fintechs acquire into the crypto ecosystem. Web3 innovation haven’t slowed and capital is rapidly catching up to where the frontier use cases in Web3 x AI are.... Wonderful report from Jamie Burke, Rumi Morales, Pietro Negri and the Outlier Ventures team. Their growth playbook offers a clear framework for what it takes to support founders through hype cycles into durability: 1/ Grants are not a growth strategy. Founders chasing capital over users burn out before they break out. 2/ Post Web ≠ Web3 hype, We’re entering an intent-driven internet. The convergence of AI x crypto is foundational. AI agents, RWA tokenization, and DePIN are reshaping what scalable utility looks like. 3/ Domain expertise matters from your capital partners, especially those with deep vertical conviction and ecosystem design. At Decasonic, this is what we mean by "enhancement capital." We don’t just invest, we co-build alongside the frontier. And we back founders early before they scale escape velocity. If you’re building the next breakout in AI x Web3, don’t just ask who’s funding you. Ask who’s building with you.

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The world's biggest problems require the world's most diverse minds. Climate tech, healthcare, semiconductors, robotics—these challenges are too complex for any single discipline to solve alone. Yet most deep tech founders face commercialization alone, struggling to bridge the gap between breakthrough science and market reality. At Future Frontier Capital, we're building the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator to change this—systematically bringing together founders with UC Berkeley's interdisciplinary talent and experienced Bay Area operators. When a battery tech founder collaborates with: → Former EV manufacturing executive → IP strategist who navigates patent landscapes → Business development pro with charging infrastructure experience → Critical minerals supply chain expert → AI optimization engineer What started as a lab discovery becomes a market-ready solution with clear paths to scale. This isn't accidental collaboration—it's intentional ecosystem design. Read why I believe interdisciplinary collaboration is the key to deep tech success. Link in Comments. #DeepTech #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Berkeley

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