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Pat Grady

Pat Grady is a Sequoia Capital partner who writes about generative AI and invests in the companies building it. He grew up in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, attended Boston College on a Presidential Scholarship, and worked construction jobs in high school and inside sales after college. He joined Sequoia as a partner in 2007 and led its growth-stage investing from 2015, backing OpenAI and legal AI platform Harvey. With Sonya Huang, he coauthored essays with GPT-3 and GPT-4 that traced generative AI’s market and its shift toward customer-focused applications. In 2025 he became a co-steward with Alfred Lin; in 2026 he advised founders at Sequoia’s AI Ascent and appeared on TIME’s TIME100 AI list.

Now at
Sequoia Capital
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Timeline

  1. Before 2007

    A path from Wyoming

    He grew up in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and attended Boston College on a Presidential Scholarship. In high school, he worked construction jobs; after college, he moved into inside sales.

  2. 2007

    Joining the Sequoia partnership

    He became a Sequoia partner and worked with Zoom, Okta, Drift and Embark Trucks.

  3. 2015

    Leading growth investments

    He led Sequoia’s growth-stage investing from 2015, backing companies including ServiceNow, OpenAI and legal AI platform Harvey.

  4. September 2022

    Mapping a creative AI wave

    With Sonya Huang and GPT-3, he published “Generative AI: A Creative New World,” a Sequoia essay about how large language models could write, code, draw and create.

  5. September 2023

    Turning AI toward customers

    The follow-up essay, coauthored with Sonya Huang and GPT-4, argued that generative AI products should solve customer problems end to end. It named Harvey and Glean among the applications.

  6. November 2025

    A shared stewardship

    Sequoia named Pat Grady and Alfred Lin co-stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha.

  7. April 2026

    Framing the agent era

    At Sequoia’s AI Ascent, he called AI a revolution in computation. His advice to founders focused on customer needs, product design and the gap between model capabilities and enterprise deployment.

  8. August 2026

    A place on TIME100 AI

    TIME included him and Alfred Lin in its 2026 TIME100 AI list. As co-stewards, they backed AI startups across law, health and cybersecurity and made a $2.5 billion investment in Anthropic.

Sources and credits

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  1. Pat Grady | Sequoia Capital sequoiacap.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Pat Grady (2000, WY) — Presidential Scholars Foundation presidentialscholars.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Seven Questions with Pat Grady articles.sequoiacap.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Sequoia names Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as new co-stewards as Roelof Botha steps down | TechCrunch techcrunch.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Generative AI: A Creative New World | Sequoia Capital sequoiacap.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Generative AI’s Act Two | Sequoia Capital sequoiacap.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. AI Ascent 2026 | Sequoia Capital sequoiacap.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Pat Grady and Alfred Lin: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 time.com. Checked 14 October 2026.