Mike Vernal on Early Facebook, Sequoia Years, and Spotting Winning Founders
saranormous · x · 2026-09-19
The High Flyers Podcast #281 interviews Conviction partner Mike Vernal: early Facebook (a few hundred people at the time), eight years working with Zuckerberg as VP of Product and Engineering, then Sequoia (Notion, Rippling, Clay, Statsig). Topics include Facebook's speed culture, the "1 billion users" conversation, how he spots founders who are truly in it to win, why people "overfit" to a job after seven years, and what changes when the cost of creating software approaches zero.
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