Mike Vernal

Mike Vernal is a general partner at Conviction, an AI-focused venture capital firm he joined in January 2025 after previously serving as a partner at Sequoia Capital for nearly seven years. He holds an AB magna cum laude and an SM in Computer Science from Harvard University and spent eight years as a VP of Product and Engineering at Facebook. He is known for his early investments in companies such as Notion, Rippling, Clay, and Statsig, and for his thesis on the erosion of traditional software moats as engineering costs approach zero.