The Sequoia AI Ascent Deck
The 20-slides by Sequoia on the agent economy, where value will accrue, and how founders should build next
Hey everyone, my name is Guillermo Flor and I’m an entrepreneur and Angel Investor.
Sequoia’s AI Ascent is one of those rare events where the people closest to the frontier stop doing vibes and start doing maps.
It’s not “AI is big” content.
It’s: what’s actually changing, where value will accrue, and what builders should do next.
Today, I wanted to share a deck especially worth studying because it compresses the whole transition into 20 slides:
A clean definition of what AI really is: Create → Reason → Interact
Why this wave is the next platform shift after internet, apps, mobile
The “white space” chart showing where AI is about to re-write entire categories
Proof that AI is already shipping into real workflows (support, legal, engineering) not just demos
The speed of adoption: AI curves that look nothing like classic SaaS and early scale signals across consumer + enterprise
The big open question: AI’s $200B question
What’s coming next: moving from copilots to agents, then planning/reasoning, then reliability
If you’re building in AI (or investing in it), this is the kind of artifact you keep open in another tab while you plan your product and your roadmap.
