#  @DialecticPod Dialectic with Jackson Dahl Dialectic with Jackson Dahl posts on X about in the, conviction, performance, interview the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1857194757321347072/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +4,452% - [--] Months [-------] +482% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1857194757321347072/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +367% - [--] Months [--] +320% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1857194757321347072/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +2% - [--] Months [-----] +86% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1857194757321347072/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the), [conviction](/topic/conviction), [performance](/topic/performance) #874, [interview](/topic/interview), [culture](/topic/culture) #1486, [step](/topic/step) #1268, [im a](/topic/im-a), [company](/topic/company) #913, [growth](/topic/growth), [humanity](/topic/humanity) **Top assets mentioned** [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Ep. 11: Eugene Wei - Amusing Each Other to Death @eugenewei is a writer product thinker and cultural observer best known for his essays on technology media and social networks including Status as a Service Invisible asymptotes and TikTok and the Sorting Hat. Eugene spent seven years at Amazon in its early days before following a brief detour to pursue filmmaking at UCLA. He then led product design editorial and marketing teams at Hulu co-founded Erly and worked at Flipboard and Oculus. Today he works on his own ideas at the intersection of media and technology while advising and angel" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1901637282802647152) 2025-03-17T14:10Z [---] followers, 25.1K engagements "Ep. 13: Nabeel Qureshi - The Will to Care Nabeel S. Qureshi (@nabeelqu) is a writer entrepreneur and former Palantir product lead known for his writing on technology AI Palantir culture and learning. After a brief hiatus writing and researching and spending nearly a decade at Palantir working across government healthcare and intelligence he's now founding a new company. The first half of the conversation focuses on two big ideas. First: the growth of "slop" across media and culture and how "care" is its opposite. Then: how to think learn and understand more deeply across domains over a" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1906695570229698995) 2025-03-31T13:10Z [---] followers, 25.2K engagements "Recorded two awesome conversations while on the west coast this week. Several more in the pipeline. I appreciate your patience. Next release is Monday. In the meantime it's a great opportunity to catch up before I return to weekly drops. I hope you're enjoy Dialectic. ๐๐ฆ๐" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1912934318907015356) 2025-04-17T18:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Ep. 15: D.A. Wallach - Serendipity & Systems D.A. Wallach (@dawallach) is an investor musician writer and polymath. Today he co-runs Time BioVentures backing frontier life-science and healthcare startups. Before that he was an investor in in SpaceX Spotify Emulate Beam Therapeutics and Ripple among others and toured the globe as half of Chester French. He also released music as a solo artist and was Spotifys first Artist-in-Residence. Our conversation moves from engineered serendipitythe art of a well-aimed cold email & surfing the webto complexity science the Santa Fe Institute and what" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1916840701721014660) 2025-04-28T13:03Z [----] followers, 31.8K engagements "Ep. 17: Alex Danco - Innovation Begins with Gifts Alex Danco (@Alex_Danco) is a writer and Product Director at Shopify. Alex rose to prominence while writing his *Snippets* newsletter while at VC firm Social Capital in [----]. He wrote prolificallyabout markets and financial systems venture capital startups cities culture the technology-driven shift to a world of abundance to name a few topicsthrough [----] when he joined Shopify. Since then he's had his hands full with Shopify and young kids but recently published a flurry of new pieces on his blog while on paternity leave. This conversation" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1925207419468050609) 2025-05-21T15:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/ Identity plasticity: We all contain many selves. To go online is to be reborn as an individual. Yancey talks about identity plasticity and how the internet lets us shed remix and multiply our identities at will redefining individualism in ways that rhyme with the social shifts of [----] AD. Online identity can mean alts finstas anime profile pictures anon accounts or even just radically different voices on Twitter LinkedIn and S*bst*ck. Each one real but none of them the complete picture of who we truly are. Put differently:" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1935397825866572171) 2025-06-18T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3a/ The tension of hyper-individualism + the hunger for collaboration Yancey speaks to the magic of being a star and part of a constellationhow modern creative life is less about individual genius and more about behind-the-scenes conspiracies that connect public creators. Group chats labels collectives. Youre still you but youre also woven into something bigger horizontal post-individual. Think: the Oxford Inklings or Odd Future" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1935397828798378464) 2025-06-18T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "6. The choice of tools matters. The tools I use to write with the tools I use to draw and think with meaningfully ffect the outcome of my thought process. It's not just an auxiliary" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1937855210300322123) 2025-06-25T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "7. The more I reflect on my schooling experience the more radicalized I get against grades and a lot of the way education works because I think it is a very agency-robbing experience in many cases. It's tricky though. There's a role for skill development and formal practice" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1937855212548407335) 2025-06-25T12:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Ep. 24: Linus Lee - Engineering for Aliveness Linus Lee (@thesephist) is a builder engineer and writer who explores how software can amplify our abilities humanity and agency. He builds researches and advises on AI at @ThriveCapital a venture capital firm and continues to write and hack on personal projects. Previously Linus held research or engineering roles at @NotionHQ @betaworks @Replit and others and has built over [---] personal projects on the side--including his own programming language and most of the tools he uses day to day. Most of his work writing and projects revolve around" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1952365982581977369) 2025-08-04T13:48Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements "Ep. 31: Gabe Whaley - Playing the Crowd and Outlasting the Hype Gabe Whaley (@Gabriel_Whaley) is co-founder and CEO of MSCHF (@mschf) the art collective fashion and footwear brand startup and fill-in-the-blank famous for its viral products and cultural interventions. A few notable works include Jesus Shoes (Nike Air Max filled with holy water) Severed Spots (a "decentralized" Damien Hirst print) Museum of Forgeries (One original Warhol and [---] perfect forgeries) and of course the Big Red Boot. This conversation was heavily influenced by MSCHF's recently released Made by MSCHF a "textbook"" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1978475063977419227) 2025-10-15T14:56Z [----] followers, 68.9K engagements "Ep. [--] with @ciaomack of @ambrookag on X: https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1961097880858701844 Ep. [--] - Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America Mackenzie Burnett (@ciaomack) is the co-founder and CEO of @AmbrookAg financial software for independent businesses starting with farms and ranches. We trace her arc from a policy-first upbringing (USDA household https://t.co/dF0w9EKMa1 https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1961097880858701844 Ep. [--] - Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America Mackenzie Burnett (@ciaomack) is the co-founder and CEO of @AmbrookAg financial software for independent" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1981406561713950815) 2025-10-23T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ciaomack @AmbrookAg All other platforms and transcript Transcript and links: Spotify: Apple: Youtube: https://youtu.be/Ors1qyfB85ssi=bvpnFPmMDmCnojRi https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-mackenzie-burnett-accounting-for-america/id1780282402i=1000723850169 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4X1PMRDwbAvaJtBL565uohsi=dLpfSo3eR3676sHIacOwrw https://dialectic.fm/mackenzie-burnett https://youtu.be/Ors1qyfB85ssi=bvpnFPmMDmCnojRi https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-mackenzie-burnett-accounting-for-america/id1780282402i=1000723850169" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1981406636192210971) 2025-10-23T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up in Buffalo NY; studied around the world by way of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service; turned his student loans in $12M in the tech bubble of [----] before losing it all and then some; and broke into Silicon Valley before eventually landing at Google where he won the founders award. Then Chris started angel investing which led to his first venture fund Lowercase I. Lowercase I is one of if not the best" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1986115173778633068) 2025-11-05T16:55Z [----] followers, 102.6K engagements "Chris Sacca on losing $16M in the dot com bubble and being worth negative $4M: "But when I was $4 million in the hole--what I've now been told was different--was at no point did I consider that failure or I'm out or I have to move back home. I was just so angry that this was gonna.slow things down."" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1995606623725736348) 2025-12-01T21:31Z [----] followers, 185.8K engagements "https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1986115173778633068s=20 Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up in Buffalo NY; studied around the world by way of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service; https://t.co/5ofcJxGQd9 https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1986115173778633068s=20 Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1995609095475528168) 2025-12-01T21:40Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements "Transcript and all links: Spotify: YouTube: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-chris-sacca-drifting-back-to-real/id1780282402i=1000735330709 https://youtu.be/acwhhgGGdX8si=s3Rgqvay0kNaHHgZ https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o9q6GKgiphuyWK3KqZR1ssi=h8GRUk9_SxSAgzNRnBv-tw&nd=1&dlsi=3f6f9975cab0486d https://dialectic.fm/chris-sacca https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-chris-sacca-drifting-back-to-real/id1780282402i=1000735330709 https://youtu.be/acwhhgGGdX8si=s3Rgqvay0kNaHHgZ" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1995609145337385276) 2025-12-01T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Chris Sacca's reflection after realizing that he'd achieved his 20-year-old self's wildest dreams: "My biggest goal is hoping that my drift is. back to the real me. The me that hopefully I've been or was covered in layers of either pretense or inauthenticity or striving."" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1998460826362196291) 2025-12-09T18:32Z [----] followers, 14.5K engagements "Are you a perceiver or a recognizer๐ Pause. Then take a minute to noodle on your answer. Thi Nguyen on the difference between recognition and perception: "Some people if you do something odd they look for an explanation. And when they can put a name to it they just stop thinking." "They've categorized it and that's done." "Recognition assumes that's all the https://t.co/WGl9yKqUwh Thi Nguyen on the difference between recognition and perception: "Some people if you do something odd they look for an explanation. And when they can put a name to it they just stop thinking." "They've categorized" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2013292567916433657) 2026-01-19T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""I love @rihanna because she's like here's a cheeseburger and I love cheeseburgers." Not: "Look at this two Michelin star steak" (which is just borrowed nostalgia repurposed for people who don't know Adam Curtis or similar references). "If you just wanna get rich sell real estate. Don't purport to be some philosopher or poet." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013733354450174103 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013733354450174103" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2013733354450174103) 2026-01-20T22:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Commerciality is patience with upside. Commercial people see where money flows and how to capture it. But the most commercial people create more value than they capture and they are transactional on long time horizons. Most people want something from you; it's the timescale of urgency that dictates whether it feels good or bad." "Focus on doing something not being someone. A green flag in a young founder is that they're focused on making something rather than building a personal brand. In the long race actions compound over narratives." https://t.co/Z4cjBCW0Cd https://t.co/Z4cjBCW0Cd" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2018808385358180441) 2026-02-03T22:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "From: All links/transcript: Spotify: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/38-molly-mielke-mccarthy-the-art-of-peopling/id1780282402i=1000747118698 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hQTqEcikcAdGBeP0FMsIQsi=10fac551a1b14f67 https://dialectic.fm/mmm https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/38-molly-mielke-mccarthy-the-art-of-peopling/id1780282402i=1000747118698 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hQTqEcikcAdGBeP0FMsIQsi=10fac551a1b14f67 https://dialectic.fm/mmm" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2018808494674313615) 2026-02-03T22:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""So much of my job as an investor with the strategy that I have is to find the strangest most spiky people and then see which ones start to gain momentum and take off. " .@mollyfmielke on how she discovers exceptional people: "One of the underlying premises to Moth fund and my approach to people is that competence is hard to find and storytelling can be taught and that guides a lot of where I spend my time as someone who can help with https://t.co/YVwt5iXlfg .@mollyfmielke on how she discovers exceptional people: "One of the underlying premises to Moth fund and my approach to people is that" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2018885937028063493) 2026-02-04T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a budding Brazilian fintech Nubank that became one of the biggest venture returns in history. "Being willing to look extraordinarily stupid at that stage of your life and then dominating that ought to be in the 'how to do this job' books." "Winners put up the numbers. Of Sequoia's ten tenets the first is performance. In Doug Leone's words "if you don't have the first one the other nine don't matter." Andrew suggests Mike Moritz may be the GOAT: "He put up the numbers more than you" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022090442687623443) 2026-02-12T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""You're on [--] boards. Companies are always missing numbers and shit's hitting the fan constantly. You're making mistakes left and right. You didn't see this investment. You're late to the AI thing. You're constantly getting harsh feedback." Andrew Reed on the most important trait in investing: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022398489930719444) 2026-02-13T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "There is a gambler in all of us. We just used to call it having opinions. "Making a wallwork or having an opinion about prestige television is very similar to taking a position or expressing that belief in a prediction market a meme coin." - Trevor McFedries on the shift to the belief economy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018046987938205725 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018046987938205725" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2018046987938205725) 2026-02-01T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Molly Mielke McCarthy on how presence enables agency: "It's really hard to be agentic if you're not present." "If you're not present to the reality of the world around you and yourself and what you're feeling and what you want and need." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021307644628304097 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021307644628304097" [X Link](https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/2021307644628304097) 2026-02-10T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ".@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really excited about." "That is so good. That is exactly how you want it to feel."" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022041695375003750) 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements ""We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other nine dont matter." "You could have clarity of thought you could have teamwork but if youre not performing youre not here." "Make no mistake about it. We are not a family. We are a team. - Doug Leone Sequoia Capital. .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022445686965285088) 2026-02-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "39: Andrew Reed - Don't Flinch Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021610917813784995) 2026-02-11T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. Andrew is a growth investor at Sequoia Capital which he joined at [--]. He led his first investment [--] years later into @RobinhoodApp and he has partnered with @figma @Klarna @phantom @VantaInc @elevenlabsio @mubi @Strava and more. We discuss: - People over spreadsheets every time - Why great companies often have a few metrics" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021609939161010646) 2026-02-11T15:39Z 40.9K followers, 239.5K engagements "RT @DialecticPod: "There is a lot that you can learn from actually just spending more of your time doing the thing than talking about the t" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022846309850579236) 2026-02-15T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""There is a lot that you can learn from actually just spending more of your time doing the thing than talking about the thing." Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself: https://t.co/jpPkwz3QZe Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022784983170158763) 2026-02-14T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022743675659538453) 2026-02-14T18:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Strict autonomy about values isn't right because you can have the wrong values and a lot of what I'm worried about is the systems by which you might be convinced to fully commit yourself to very simplified values that diminish your self." "Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince you to commit to simplified values that diminish your self. https://t.co/d8oxwWayG3 "Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022795583568928940) 2026-02-14T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince you to commit to simplified values that diminish your self" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2013344460730781746) 2026-01-19T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""It is very important for me to be really great at what I do if not the best in the world at what I do." - @FoundersPodcast @davidsenra on why optionality is the enemy of greatness" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2016621987637105078) 2026-01-28T21:18Z [----] followers, 45K engagements "RT @DialecticPod: "We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other n" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022540206474432662) 2026-02-14T05:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other nine dont matter." "You could have clarity of thought you could have teamwork but if youre not performing youre not here." "Make no mistake about it. We are not a family. We are a team. - Doug Leone Sequoia Capital. .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022445686965285088) 2026-02-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ".@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really excited about." "That is so good. That is exactly how you want it to feel."" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022041695375003750) 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements ""You're on [--] boards. Companies are always missing numbers and shit's hitting the fan constantly. You're making mistakes left and right. You didn't see this investment. You're late to the AI thing. You're constantly getting harsh feedback." Andrew Reed on the most important trait in investing: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022398489930719444) 2026-02-13T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "RT @ZacharyDeWitt: I really enjoyed this conversation. First-time listener. @jacksondahl is a great interviewer and @andrew__reed has grea" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022460530716549425) 2026-02-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I really enjoyed this conversation. First-time listener. @jacksondahl is a great interviewer and @andrew__reed has great taste. Conviction sounds so easy from the outside but is so hard in the moment from the inside. Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation." [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022393038140756129) 2026-02-13T19:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On building conviction and investing in @zoink @matiii and @christinacaci (from @DialecticPod)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022444425650307519) 2026-02-13T22:55Z 61.6K followers, [----] engagements "RT @shaunmmaguire: Great interview w my partner @andrew__reed Andrew has a fantastic investor mind Lucky to be his partner ๐ฒ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022435086474383710) 2026-02-13T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Great interview w my partner @andrew__reed Andrew has a fantastic investor mind Lucky to be his partner ๐ฒ Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022372981008118147) 2026-02-13T18:11Z 307.1K followers, 24.6K engagements "Some opinions on the human side of the VC-founder relationship (from @DialecticPod)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022327132375200173) 2026-02-13T15:08Z 61.6K followers, 12.5K engagements "RT @DialecticPod: "Everyone is faced with this choice of how far do you want to sell out to get the algorithm to give you that distribution" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022285135329313254) 2026-02-13T12:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Everyone is faced with this choice of how far do you want to sell out to get the algorithm to give you that distribution juice" - @eugenewei Dialectic E11. Increasingly feels like artists who opt out of the algorithm game and produce work that isnt algo-friendly are seen as posh/nepo/trust fund. Playing the algo game to survive is optically punk and honest." - @whatdotcd Dialectic E37. The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For [---] years whenever I published a video on YouTube I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021596717460951451) 2026-02-11T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For [---] years whenever I published a video on YouTube I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then during the summer my view count fell. Nothing worked until I found a formula: "How to Write ________ Well." Always the same text. Throw an adverb in the middle then share a quote from the interview in the thumbnail. People are 0.5% - 1% more likely to click on that title format so the channel has exploded in growth. This title format is worse for my viewers and soul-deadening for me but it's" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021249358654558220) 2026-02-10T15:46Z 473.1K followers, 348.5K engagements "RT @DialecticPod: "Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a buddi" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022284901324845348) 2026-02-13T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a budding Brazilian fintech Nubank that became one of the biggest venture returns in history. "Being willing to look extraordinarily stupid at that stage of your life and then dominating that ought to be in the 'how to do this job' books." "Winners put up the numbers. Of Sequoia's ten tenets the first is performance. In Doug Leone's words "if you don't have the first one the other nine don't matter." Andrew suggests Mike Moritz may be the GOAT: "He put up the numbers more than you" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022090442687623443) 2026-02-12T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "15 Lessons from Sequoia's Andrew Reed on Conviction Founders and Putting up the Numbers From @DialecticPod Ep. 39: Andrew Reed - Don't Flinch. @andrew__reed The founder beats the model. Andrew started his career as a headphones-on excel grinder. Hed now choose founder quality over http://x.com/i/article/2022005304204906496 http://x.com/i/article/2022005304204906496" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022006602195173473) 2026-02-12T17:55Z 40.9K followers, 52.5K engagements "RT @sonyatweetybird: Love this. Intense spirit of competition and camaraderie on the sequoia bench. @andrew__reed may be a biking speed dem" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022164597164396902) 2026-02-13T04:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Love this. Intense spirit of competition and camaraderie on the sequoia bench. @andrew__reed may be a biking speed demon but we are neck-and-neck on sourcing companies and i mog him all day long at typing wpm ;) .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really https://t.co/GVcGwvjdYd .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022054017036419343) 2026-02-12T21:03Z 19.8K followers, 15.6K engagements "From: https://x.com/jacksondahl/status/2021609939161010646s=20 Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc https://x.com/jacksondahl/status/2021609939161010646s=20 Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022043716593365481) 2026-02-12T20:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Ep. 11: Eugene Wei - Amusing Each Other to Death @eugenewei is a writer product thinker and cultural observer best known for his essays on technology media and social networks including Status as a Service Invisible asymptotes and TikTok and the Sorting Hat. Eugene spent seven years at Amazon in its early days before following a brief detour to pursue filmmaking at UCLA. He then led product design editorial and marketing teams at Hulu co-founded Erly and worked at Flipboard and Oculus. Today he works on his own ideas at the intersection of media and technology while advising and angel"
X Link 2025-03-17T14:10Z [---] followers, 25.1K engagements
"Ep. 13: Nabeel Qureshi - The Will to Care Nabeel S. Qureshi (@nabeelqu) is a writer entrepreneur and former Palantir product lead known for his writing on technology AI Palantir culture and learning. After a brief hiatus writing and researching and spending nearly a decade at Palantir working across government healthcare and intelligence he's now founding a new company. The first half of the conversation focuses on two big ideas. First: the growth of "slop" across media and culture and how "care" is its opposite. Then: how to think learn and understand more deeply across domains over a"
X Link 2025-03-31T13:10Z [---] followers, 25.2K engagements
"Recorded two awesome conversations while on the west coast this week. Several more in the pipeline. I appreciate your patience. Next release is Monday. In the meantime it's a great opportunity to catch up before I return to weekly drops. I hope you're enjoy Dialectic. ๐๐ฆ๐"
X Link 2025-04-17T18:20Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Ep. 15: D.A. Wallach - Serendipity & Systems D.A. Wallach (@dawallach) is an investor musician writer and polymath. Today he co-runs Time BioVentures backing frontier life-science and healthcare startups. Before that he was an investor in in SpaceX Spotify Emulate Beam Therapeutics and Ripple among others and toured the globe as half of Chester French. He also released music as a solo artist and was Spotifys first Artist-in-Residence. Our conversation moves from engineered serendipitythe art of a well-aimed cold email & surfing the webto complexity science the Santa Fe Institute and what"
X Link 2025-04-28T13:03Z [----] followers, 31.8K engagements
"Ep. 17: Alex Danco - Innovation Begins with Gifts Alex Danco (@Alex_Danco) is a writer and Product Director at Shopify. Alex rose to prominence while writing his Snippets newsletter while at VC firm Social Capital in [----]. He wrote prolificallyabout markets and financial systems venture capital startups cities culture the technology-driven shift to a world of abundance to name a few topicsthrough [----] when he joined Shopify. Since then he's had his hands full with Shopify and young kids but recently published a flurry of new pieces on his blog while on paternity leave. This conversation"
X Link 2025-05-21T15:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/ Identity plasticity: We all contain many selves. To go online is to be reborn as an individual. Yancey talks about identity plasticity and how the internet lets us shed remix and multiply our identities at will redefining individualism in ways that rhyme with the social shifts of [----] AD. Online identity can mean alts finstas anime profile pictures anon accounts or even just radically different voices on Twitter LinkedIn and Sbstck. Each one real but none of them the complete picture of who we truly are. Put differently:"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3a/ The tension of hyper-individualism + the hunger for collaboration Yancey speaks to the magic of being a star and part of a constellationhow modern creative life is less about individual genius and more about behind-the-scenes conspiracies that connect public creators. Group chats labels collectives. Youre still you but youre also woven into something bigger horizontal post-individual. Think: the Oxford Inklings or Odd Future"
X Link 2025-06-18T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"6. The choice of tools matters. The tools I use to write with the tools I use to draw and think with meaningfully ffect the outcome of my thought process. It's not just an auxiliary"
X Link 2025-06-25T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"7. The more I reflect on my schooling experience the more radicalized I get against grades and a lot of the way education works because I think it is a very agency-robbing experience in many cases. It's tricky though. There's a role for skill development and formal practice"
X Link 2025-06-25T12:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ep. 24: Linus Lee - Engineering for Aliveness Linus Lee (@thesephist) is a builder engineer and writer who explores how software can amplify our abilities humanity and agency. He builds researches and advises on AI at @ThriveCapital a venture capital firm and continues to write and hack on personal projects. Previously Linus held research or engineering roles at @NotionHQ @betaworks @Replit and others and has built over [---] personal projects on the side--including his own programming language and most of the tools he uses day to day. Most of his work writing and projects revolve around"
X Link 2025-08-04T13:48Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements
"Ep. 31: Gabe Whaley - Playing the Crowd and Outlasting the Hype Gabe Whaley (@Gabriel_Whaley) is co-founder and CEO of MSCHF (@mschf) the art collective fashion and footwear brand startup and fill-in-the-blank famous for its viral products and cultural interventions. A few notable works include Jesus Shoes (Nike Air Max filled with holy water) Severed Spots (a "decentralized" Damien Hirst print) Museum of Forgeries (One original Warhol and [---] perfect forgeries) and of course the Big Red Boot. This conversation was heavily influenced by MSCHF's recently released Made by MSCHF a "textbook""
X Link 2025-10-15T14:56Z [----] followers, 68.9K engagements
"Ep. [--] with @ciaomack of @ambrookag on X: https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1961097880858701844 Ep. [--] - Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America Mackenzie Burnett (@ciaomack) is the co-founder and CEO of @AmbrookAg financial software for independent businesses starting with farms and ranches. We trace her arc from a policy-first upbringing (USDA household https://t.co/dF0w9EKMa1 https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1961097880858701844 Ep. [--] - Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America Mackenzie Burnett (@ciaomack) is the co-founder and CEO of @AmbrookAg financial software for independent"
X Link 2025-10-23T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ciaomack @AmbrookAg All other platforms and transcript Transcript and links: Spotify: Apple: Youtube: https://youtu.be/Ors1qyfB85ssi=bvpnFPmMDmCnojRi https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-mackenzie-burnett-accounting-for-america/id1780282402i=1000723850169 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4X1PMRDwbAvaJtBL565uohsi=dLpfSo3eR3676sHIacOwrw https://dialectic.fm/mackenzie-burnett https://youtu.be/Ors1qyfB85ssi=bvpnFPmMDmCnojRi https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/27-mackenzie-burnett-accounting-for-america/id1780282402i=1000723850169"
X Link 2025-10-23T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up in Buffalo NY; studied around the world by way of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service; turned his student loans in $12M in the tech bubble of [----] before losing it all and then some; and broke into Silicon Valley before eventually landing at Google where he won the founders award. Then Chris started angel investing which led to his first venture fund Lowercase I. Lowercase I is one of if not the best"
X Link 2025-11-05T16:55Z [----] followers, 102.6K engagements
"Chris Sacca on losing $16M in the dot com bubble and being worth negative $4M: "But when I was $4 million in the hole--what I've now been told was different--was at no point did I consider that failure or I'm out or I have to move back home. I was just so angry that this was gonna.slow things down.""
X Link 2025-12-01T21:31Z [----] followers, 185.8K engagements
"https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1986115173778633068s=20 Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up in Buffalo NY; studied around the world by way of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service; https://t.co/5ofcJxGQd9 https://x.com/DialecticPod/status/1986115173778633068s=20 Ep. 32: Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real Chris Sacca (@sacca) is an investor and founder of @lowercarbon Capital and @Lowercase Capital. Prior to becoming an investor Chris grew up"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:40Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements
"Transcript and all links: Spotify: YouTube: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-chris-sacca-drifting-back-to-real/id1780282402i=1000735330709 https://youtu.be/acwhhgGGdX8si=s3Rgqvay0kNaHHgZ https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o9q6GKgiphuyWK3KqZR1ssi=h8GRUk9_SxSAgzNRnBv-tw&nd=1&dlsi=3f6f9975cab0486d https://dialectic.fm/chris-sacca https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-chris-sacca-drifting-back-to-real/id1780282402i=1000735330709 https://youtu.be/acwhhgGGdX8si=s3Rgqvay0kNaHHgZ"
X Link 2025-12-01T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Chris Sacca's reflection after realizing that he'd achieved his 20-year-old self's wildest dreams: "My biggest goal is hoping that my drift is. back to the real me. The me that hopefully I've been or was covered in layers of either pretense or inauthenticity or striving.""
X Link 2025-12-09T18:32Z [----] followers, 14.5K engagements
"Are you a perceiver or a recognizer๐ Pause. Then take a minute to noodle on your answer. Thi Nguyen on the difference between recognition and perception: "Some people if you do something odd they look for an explanation. And when they can put a name to it they just stop thinking." "They've categorized it and that's done." "Recognition assumes that's all the https://t.co/WGl9yKqUwh Thi Nguyen on the difference between recognition and perception: "Some people if you do something odd they look for an explanation. And when they can put a name to it they just stop thinking." "They've categorized"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""I love @rihanna because she's like here's a cheeseburger and I love cheeseburgers." Not: "Look at this two Michelin star steak" (which is just borrowed nostalgia repurposed for people who don't know Adam Curtis or similar references). "If you just wanna get rich sell real estate. Don't purport to be some philosopher or poet." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013733354450174103 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013733354450174103"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Commerciality is patience with upside. Commercial people see where money flows and how to capture it. But the most commercial people create more value than they capture and they are transactional on long time horizons. Most people want something from you; it's the timescale of urgency that dictates whether it feels good or bad." "Focus on doing something not being someone. A green flag in a young founder is that they're focused on making something rather than building a personal brand. In the long race actions compound over narratives." https://t.co/Z4cjBCW0Cd https://t.co/Z4cjBCW0Cd"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From: All links/transcript: Spotify: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/38-molly-mielke-mccarthy-the-art-of-peopling/id1780282402i=1000747118698 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hQTqEcikcAdGBeP0FMsIQsi=10fac551a1b14f67 https://dialectic.fm/mmm https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/38-molly-mielke-mccarthy-the-art-of-peopling/id1780282402i=1000747118698 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hQTqEcikcAdGBeP0FMsIQsi=10fac551a1b14f67 https://dialectic.fm/mmm"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""So much of my job as an investor with the strategy that I have is to find the strangest most spiky people and then see which ones start to gain momentum and take off. " .@mollyfmielke on how she discovers exceptional people: "One of the underlying premises to Moth fund and my approach to people is that competence is hard to find and storytelling can be taught and that guides a lot of where I spend my time as someone who can help with https://t.co/YVwt5iXlfg .@mollyfmielke on how she discovers exceptional people: "One of the underlying premises to Moth fund and my approach to people is that"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a budding Brazilian fintech Nubank that became one of the biggest venture returns in history. "Being willing to look extraordinarily stupid at that stage of your life and then dominating that ought to be in the 'how to do this job' books." "Winners put up the numbers. Of Sequoia's ten tenets the first is performance. In Doug Leone's words "if you don't have the first one the other nine don't matter." Andrew suggests Mike Moritz may be the GOAT: "He put up the numbers more than you"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""You're on [--] boards. Companies are always missing numbers and shit's hitting the fan constantly. You're making mistakes left and right. You didn't see this investment. You're late to the AI thing. You're constantly getting harsh feedback." Andrew Reed on the most important trait in investing: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There is a gambler in all of us. We just used to call it having opinions. "Making a wallwork or having an opinion about prestige television is very similar to taking a position or expressing that belief in a prediction market a meme coin." - Trevor McFedries on the shift to the belief economy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018046987938205725 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018046987938205725"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Molly Mielke McCarthy on how presence enables agency: "It's really hard to be agentic if you're not present." "If you're not present to the reality of the world around you and yourself and what you're feeling and what you want and need." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021307644628304097 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021307644628304097"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really excited about." "That is so good. That is exactly how you want it to feel.""
X Link 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements
""We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other nine dont matter." "You could have clarity of thought you could have teamwork but if youre not performing youre not here." "Make no mistake about it. We are not a family. We are a team. - Doug Leone Sequoia Capital. .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"39: Andrew Reed - Don't Flinch Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia."
X Link 2026-02-11T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. Andrew is a growth investor at Sequoia Capital which he joined at [--]. He led his first investment [--] years later into @RobinhoodApp and he has partnered with @figma @Klarna @phantom @VantaInc @elevenlabsio @mubi @Strava and more. We discuss: - People over spreadsheets every time - Why great companies often have a few metrics"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:39Z 40.9K followers, 239.5K engagements
"RT @DialecticPod: "There is a lot that you can learn from actually just spending more of your time doing the thing than talking about the t"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""There is a lot that you can learn from actually just spending more of your time doing the thing than talking about the thing." Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself: https://t.co/jpPkwz3QZe Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself:"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Theres a special kind of panic reserved for people who cant categorize you in under [--] seconds. Hmm. Concerning. But as @mollyfmielke notes there's a difference between being uncertain and justnot narrating yourself:"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Strict autonomy about values isn't right because you can have the wrong values and a lot of what I'm worried about is the systems by which you might be convinced to fully commit yourself to very simplified values that diminish your self." "Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince you to commit to simplified values that diminish your self. https://t.co/d8oxwWayG3 "Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Give people what they want" sounds generous. But as @add_hawk points out: you can have the wrong values especially when systems convince you to commit to simplified values that diminish your self"
X Link 2026-01-19T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""It is very important for me to be really great at what I do if not the best in the world at what I do." - @FoundersPodcast @davidsenra on why optionality is the enemy of greatness"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:18Z [----] followers, 45K engagements
"RT @DialecticPod: "We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other n"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""We have [--] tenets at Sequoia. Number one is performance. The others are not important. If youre missing #1 the other nine dont matter." "You could have clarity of thought you could have teamwork but if youre not performing youre not here." "Make no mistake about it. We are not a family. We are a team. - Doug Leone Sequoia Capital. .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
".@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really excited about." "That is so good. That is exactly how you want it to feel.""
X Link 2026-02-12T20:14Z [----] followers, 34.1K engagements
""You're on [--] boards. Companies are always missing numbers and shit's hitting the fan constantly. You're making mistakes left and right. You didn't see this investment. You're late to the AI thing. You're constantly getting harsh feedback." Andrew Reed on the most important trait in investing: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022398489930719444"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @ZacharyDeWitt: I really enjoyed this conversation. First-time listener. @jacksondahl is a great interviewer and @andrew__reed has grea"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I really enjoyed this conversation. First-time listener. @jacksondahl is a great interviewer and @andrew__reed has great taste. Conviction sounds so easy from the outside but is so hard in the moment from the inside. Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation."
X Link 2026-02-13T19:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On building conviction and investing in @zoink @matiii and @christinacaci (from @DialecticPod)"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:55Z 61.6K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @shaunmmaguire: Great interview w my partner @andrew__reed Andrew has a fantastic investor mind Lucky to be his partner ๐ฒ"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Great interview w my partner @andrew__reed Andrew has a fantastic investor mind Lucky to be his partner ๐ฒ Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:11Z 307.1K followers, 24.6K engagements
"Some opinions on the human side of the VC-founder relationship (from @DialecticPod)"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:08Z 61.6K followers, 12.5K engagements
"RT @DialecticPod: "Everyone is faced with this choice of how far do you want to sell out to get the algorithm to give you that distribution"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Everyone is faced with this choice of how far do you want to sell out to get the algorithm to give you that distribution juice" - @eugenewei Dialectic E11. Increasingly feels like artists who opt out of the algorithm game and produce work that isnt algo-friendly are seen as posh/nepo/trust fund. Playing the algo game to survive is optically punk and honest." - @whatdotcd Dialectic E37. The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For [---] years whenever I published a video on YouTube I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For [---] years whenever I published a video on YouTube I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then during the summer my view count fell. Nothing worked until I found a formula: "How to Write ________ Well." Always the same text. Throw an adverb in the middle then share a quote from the interview in the thumbnail. People are 0.5% - 1% more likely to click on that title format so the channel has exploded in growth. This title format is worse for my viewers and soul-deadening for me but it's"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:46Z 473.1K followers, 348.5K engagements
"RT @DialecticPod: "Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a buddi"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""Reinvent or become a footnote. Sequoia legend @dougleone spent decades doing enterprise deals then at [--] bet on a budding Brazilian fintech Nubank that became one of the biggest venture returns in history. "Being willing to look extraordinarily stupid at that stage of your life and then dominating that ought to be in the 'how to do this job' books." "Winners put up the numbers. Of Sequoia's ten tenets the first is performance. In Doug Leone's words "if you don't have the first one the other nine don't matter." Andrew suggests Mike Moritz may be the GOAT: "He put up the numbers more than you"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"15 Lessons from Sequoia's Andrew Reed on Conviction Founders and Putting up the Numbers From @DialecticPod Ep. 39: Andrew Reed - Don't Flinch. @andrew__reed The founder beats the model. Andrew started his career as a headphones-on excel grinder. Hed now choose founder quality over http://x.com/i/article/2022005304204906496 http://x.com/i/article/2022005304204906496"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:55Z 40.9K followers, 52.5K engagements
"RT @sonyatweetybird: Love this. Intense spirit of competition and camaraderie on the sequoia bench. @andrew__reed may be a biking speed dem"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Love this. Intense spirit of competition and camaraderie on the sequoia bench. @andrew__reed may be a biking speed demon but we are neck-and-neck on sourcing companies and i mog him all day long at typing wpm ;) .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm excited about. But @DavidCahn6 or @sonyatweetybird had emailed them yesterday." "It's happened to me [--] times in the last year. I'm a step behind my partners on the companies I'm really https://t.co/GVcGwvjdYd .@andrew__reed on @sequoia's performance culture: "I'll hear about a company that I'm"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:03Z 19.8K followers, 15.6K engagements
"From: https://x.com/jacksondahl/status/2021609939161010646s=20 Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure what great founders look like and how humanity and competitiveness coexist inside @sequoia. https://t.co/hXrz0dHjTc https://x.com/jacksondahl/status/2021609939161010646s=20 Andrew Reed has quietly become one of the best growth investors of his generation. This is his first long form interview. I talked to @andrew__reed about conviction under pressure"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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