This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To Fail

Sandhya Venkatachalam spent the first half of her career building technology companies. She led product at an early data center hardware company that was sold to Cisco, then became a product executive at Skype before its sale to Microsoft. Those roles brought her into data and machine learning years before AI became venture capital’s dominant theme.

She later became a general partner at Social Capital, where she led early institutional investments in AI chipmaker Groq, and later invested at Khosla…