# Pat Grady

Co-steward, Sequoia Capital. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. Before Sequoia, he made $9 an hour putting down shingles in a high school construction job, and Sequoia's returns helped pay his Boston College tuition. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/people/pat-grady))

- Education: BS, Economics and finance, Boston College, 2004 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradypb))
- Career: Sequoia Capital (Co-steward, 2007 to now) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradypb), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/pat-grady-alfred-lin/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/pat-grady-alfred-lin/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/pat-grady

- Grew up in Wyoming, where his high school jobs were in construction laying shingles for $9 an hour. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/people/pat-grady))
- His Boston College tuition was partly paid by returns from Sequoia investments through its nonprofit backers, which he cites as a motivation. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/people/pat-grady))
- Started out in inside sales after college, where 50 dials a day produced about 200 conversations a month. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/people/pat-grady))
- Since taking Sequoia's top job with Alfred Lin, helped raise $10B across funds and made a $2.5B investment in Anthropic. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/pat-grady-alfred-lin/))
- Told TIME Sequoia's long-term target for each of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic is about $10 trillion in market cap. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/pat-grady-alfred-lin/))
- Co-hosts Sequoia's AI podcast Training Data with Sonya Huang, launched in June 2024. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/series/training-data))