Sequoia Ascent 2026 Summary

Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary 30 Apr, 2026 I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The YouTube video is here: YouTube Video Link As an experiment, I fed an LLM all of my recent blog posts and tweets, then I had it read this video's transcript and produce 1) a summary and 2) a cleaned up transcript (correcting all transcription mistakes, getting rid of fill words, etc). I am posting both of these below. These can be useful for both people who may want to just read the summary in text format, but also for LLMs so that my content is legible and available to them. AI generated content below for this talk follows. I used a top capability model (in this case Codex 5.5) and read the content and it reads ok without glaring mistakes.

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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at karpathy.