Mike Vernal
Mike Vernal is a partner at Conviction, a venture capital firm focused on AI-native companies. He previously spent nearly seven years as a partner at Sequoia Capital and, before that, served as a vice president of product and engineering at Facebook from 2008 to 2016. He is known for early investments in companies including Notion, Rippling, Verkada, and Clay, and began his career at Microsoft.
“A second fund closed at $230 million alongside the hire of Mike Vernal, previously a partner at Sequoia and before that one of Facebook's most senior product leaders.”
Source→“Credit to Mike Vernal, who was one of our early investors. I would meet with him and he'd be like, we should own a title.”
Source→“Vernal initially thought Cursor's plan to replace VS Code at seed stage was too aggressive. He was wrong, and now says replacing VS Code feels under-ambitious.”
Source→“Lower software production costs now reward founders who pursue broad market ownership from day one instead of defending narrow categories.”
“Mike Vernal, who actually started his career at Microsoft, just wrote an essay”
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