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Mike Vernal

ROLE PARTNERAT GREYLOCKMENTIONS 3LAST SEEN JUNE 10, 2026
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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.

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mention·Data Driven VC·JUNE 10, 2026

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.

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mention·The VC Corner·JUNE 7, 2026

Lower software production costs now reward founders who pursue broad market ownership from day one instead of defending narrow categories.

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mention·No Priors·JUNE 4, 2026

Mike Vernal, who actually started his career at Microsoft, just wrote an essay

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