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Co-Founder/Co-CEO @Ithaca_Holdings || Partner @Sequoia || @Instacart COO/CFO before || @GlueGuys_Pod
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Today we announced an agreement to acquire Bumble.

Over the past six months, we’ve looked at hundreds of companies, asking which businesses would become more valuable as AI advances. 

Bumble stood out. 

As intelligence becomes more abundant, we believe connecting with the right person and forming meaningful relationships will become even more precious. And frontier technology can help more people find and build those relationships.

Our purpose at Ithaca is to apply frontier technology to things that matter. We acquire enduring businesses, transform them with technology, and hold for the long term. We focus on businesses not only for their financial potential but their ability to enrich lives.

Whitney and her team have built something extraordinary. Millions of relationships began on Bumble, and we’re honored to help take it into its next era. Together we intend to build the best company in the world for helping people find each other.

Let’s get to work.
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Faire found a giant market that was hiding in plain sight, built an incredible product that improves with data and scale…and now has the opportunity to compound for a very very long time
Max Rhodes Verified account @MaxRhodesOK Sep 21
It was great getting to share our vision, and the progress we’re making towards it, with Kelly Cloonan at The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/business/retai…
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Ravi Gupta Verified account @GuptaRK22
I can’t quite believe how well Patrick captured Michael in these 90 mins. You should listen. I would also echo Jim’s description of working with Michael: “a privilege, occasionally intimidating, and often a joy”
jim goetz Verified account @jimgoetz Sep 18
i had the good fortune to be mentored by “mm” when i joined sequoia, shadowing him my first year and learning more than i imagined. working alongside him was a privilege, occasionally intimidating, and often a joy. props to patrick for drawing out the wit, charm and heart of sir michael. left me smiling and misty-eyed. well worth a listen. @sequoia
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The possibilities with these personas are endless and stunningly good.

We spent the first 15 mins of our last board meeting geeking out over them.
Bret Taylor Verified account @btaylor Aug 7
Today, Sierra’s launching Voice Personas, which enable you to give your agent not just a voice, but a personality. Voice AIs shouldn't sound the same. It's time to empower every company to define their own brand voice. And we had a ton of fun messing around, as you’ll see in the video.
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The shift from one and done agents having a conversation to contain cost to long horizon ones doing tasks for months to drive revenue growth for businesses is underway - so happy the TakeOff team is joining @SierraPlatform to make it happen even faster
Bret Taylor Verified account @btaylor Jul 23
I’m incredibly excited to share that Sierra is acquiring TakeOff, the leader in long-horizon AI agents. @claybavor and I couldn't be more excited to welcome @letsleverup and the entire TakeOff team.

In less than a year, they've built something truly special: an agent platform that delivers real business outcomes, is beloved by customers, and is growing incredibly quickly. Their maniacal focus on revenue driving, long-horizon agents has taken them from 0 to near 8 figures in revenue across several 7 figure contracts since the start of this year.

As we got to know the team, it became clear we were making the same bet: that fully autonomous agents would perform human-level work at software scale and that the largest businesses in AI would be built around outcomes, not inference. Takeoff has built an exceptional platform and team to make that real, and together we’re excited to build the leading company in long-horizon AI agents.

Welcome, Aakash and the Takeoff team. x.com/letsleverup/st…
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