Dylan Patel · Sequoia Capital · 30 June 2026
“The real breakthrough innovation is when you leapfrog a few layers, you co optimize and co design them, and now all of a sudden you've taken what could have been a 2x here, 2x here, 2x here, and instead of being multiplicative to 8x, it's actually 100x, because you've optimized it across all three layers.”
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