What It Takes to Build in the AI Era, Coffee with Sequoia Partner Lauren Reeder

​Join us for an intimate coffee chat in San Francisco with Lauren Reeder, Partner at Sequoia Capital, for a candid, off-the-record conversation on building in the age of AI.

​Lauren brings a rare blend of product depth and investor conviction. From engineering in college to leading product at Segment and Twilio, she has built by listening deeply to customers. Today at Sequoia, she backs founders shaping the next infrastructure stack, particularly as LLMs redefine how we build, work, and think. Her investments include category-defining companies such as Anthropic and Juicebox, reflecting her focus on foundational AI and ambitious, infrastructure-level innovation.

​This discussion will explore what it means to truly understand the “why” behind your product, how AI is reshaping infrastructure and workflows across industries, and why ambition and curiosity separate enduring companies from incremental ones. Expect a rigorous exchange that moves between first principles and execution detail. Lauren looks for founders who challenge her thinking, who have done the work and are prepared to defend it.

​10 spots.