Mike Vernal is a Sequoia Capital partner who spent eight years scaling Facebook's core products like News Feed, giving him an unusually operator-focused approach to evaluating how startups will perform at scale. He's known for his skepticism about data moats and his Market Curve framework for picking the right markets, plus he writes detailed essays translating complex product concepts into practical tools for founders. Mike Vernal is a Sequoia Capital partner who spent eight years scaling Facebook's core products like News Feed, giving him an unusually operator-focused approach to evaluating how startups will perform at scale. He's known for his skepticism about data moats and his Market Curve framework for picking the right markets, plus he writes detailed essays translating complex product concepts into practical tools for founders.