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Konstantine Buhler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
78 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

So everybody has used AI for text-based modalities.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

You talk to the AI and it responds to you in text.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

We've seen voice hit the mainstream.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

Voice has gotten so good that with companies like Sierra, which is a portfolio company that does customer support,

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

You can have entire conversations with AI flawlessly or companies like Listen Labs does market research incredibly well with voice.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And then in 2026, we'll see video start to really take center stage.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

We obviously have seen Sora and Nano Banana and those perform incredibly well.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

It's just the beginning for them.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

Of course.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

So we were the first outside investors in Citadel Securities in 2021.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

We're proud to have invested a billion dollars in the business.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And a lot of the reason we invested in the company was the technology platform that they operate on and have built.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And this technology platform has changed an entire industry.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

So if you think back 30, 40 years, the way that securities were traded was really in-person services.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

Two people would find a price and then transact in person.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And they, especially Ken, had a vision of the future in which you're going to actually be able to discover that price using algorithms, predictive algorithms, and then actually be able to complete that digitally.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And we've actually seen that become the way the vast majority of equities are now traded digitally.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

And it's just the beginning.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

So only 8% of fixed income is traded digitally.

Bloomberg Talks
Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler Talks Agentic AI

There's another 92% to go.