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Sarah Guo

Partner to Founders & Venture Capitalist
Partner to Founders & Venture Capitalist

Hi! I’m the founder of Conviction, making early-stage venture capital investments in extraordinary technology startups. Previously, I was a General Partner at Greylock.

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0x Labs
Baseten
Cleo
Coda
Common Room
Figma
Magic Eden
Mystery
Obsidian
Postscript
Remotion
Shortcut
Neeva
Utmost
Awake
Demisto
Skyhigh Networks
Sqreen

The shared, open exchange infrastructure for the internet.

ML Application Builder for data science and machine learning teams.

The most comprehensive support system for working families.

A new doc that brings words, data and teams together. Supporting the company with my partner Reid Hoffman.

Common Room helps companies deepen relationships across their communities, anywhere people are.

Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. Supporting the company with my partner John Lilly.

The leading Solana NFT marketplace. Supporting the company with my partner Mike Duboe.

Mystery provides Morale-as-a-Service for companies. It's the easy button for great virtual events.

Obsidian closes the gaps in SaaS security: account compromise, configuration and compliance, and privilege right-sizing. Pairing our deep knowledge of each application with machine learning to deliver value in minutes, without agents to deploy or custom rules to write. Supporting the company with my partner Asheem Chandna.

The leading SMS platform for Shopify merchants, helping brands get their message through, connect with customers, and grow revenue at the same time. Supporting the company with my partner Mike Duboe.

Remotion is the lightweight virtual office that helps remote-first teams connect like they’re in person.

Shortcut is the collaborative home for modern software teams, combining issue tracking and communication.

Ad-free and private search, built for the users. Supporting the company with my partners Reid Hoffman and Asheem Chandna.

The first Extended Workforce System that enables the enterprise and its non-employee workforce to seamlessly and efficiently work together.

Advanced network traffic analysis for security. Supporting the company with my partner Asheem Chandna.

The leading Security Orchestration, Automation and Response solution.

The pioneering Cloud Access Security Broker. Supporting the company with my partner Asheem Chandna.

The industry’s first provider of Application Security Management (ASM).

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September 21, 2023

How Fast to Hire

May 24, 2023

No Priors 🎙️119: Kevin Scott, CTO Microsoft (TRANSCRIPT)

May 18, 2023

No Priors 🎙️117: The AI Will See You Now: With Karan Singhal (TRANSCRIPT)

May 11, 2023

No Priors 🎙️116: With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder DeepMind and Inflection (TRANSCRIPT)

May 04, 2023

No Priors 🎙️115: Kelvin Guu, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain (TRANSCRIPT)

April 27, 2023

No Priors 🎙️114: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More (TRANSCRIPT)

April 20, 2023

No Priors 🎙️113: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA (TRANSCRIPT)

April 13, 2023

No Priors 🎙️112: Noam Shazeer, Founder and CEO of Character.AI (TRANSCRIPT)

April 06, 2023

No Priors 🎙️111: Matei Zaharia, Founder and CTO of Databricks (TRANSCRIPT)

April 02, 2023

Temporary Markets and “Easy” Problems

March 30, 2023

No Priors 🎙️110: Alex Graveley, Chief Architect GitHub Copilot, Founder/CEO Minion.AI (TRANSCRIPT)

March 23, 2023

No Priors 🎙️109: Aravind Srinivas & Dennis Yarats, Cofounders Perplexity AI (TRANSCRIPT)

March 21, 2023

Every Company Needs an AI Strategy

March 16, 2023

No Priors 🎙️108: Sridhar Ramaswamy, Cofounder/CEO Neeva (TRANSCRIPT)

March 09, 2023

No Priors 🎙️107: Percy Liang, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (TRANSCRIPT)

March 02, 2023

No Priors 🎙️106: Daphne Koller, Cofounder/CEO insitro (TRANSCRIPT)

February 23, 2023

No Priors🎙105: Clem Delangue, Cofounder/CEO HuggingFace (TRANSCRIPT)

February 22, 2023

observations on AI startups in early 2023

February 21, 2023

No Priors 🎙104: Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Founder/CEO Zipline (TRANSCRIPT)

May 17, 2022

Iconversation Interview with Freddy Kerrest, Founder/COO Okta

February 08, 2022

Iconversation with Jeff Lawson, Cofounder/CEO Twilio

February 01, 2022

Iconversation with Aneel Bhusri, Founder/CEO Workday

January 11, 2022

Iconversation Interview with Eric Yuan, Founder/CEO Zoom

October 26, 2021

Iconversation Interview with Bret Taylor, President/COO Salesforce

October 21, 2021

CNBC interview with Julia Boornstein on disruptive tech trends.

October 20, 2021

WSJ Tech Live 2021: Interview on the Future of Work

October 20, 2021

WSJ: Greylock’s Sarah Guo Sounds Alarm on Heightened Cybersecurity Risks 🔗

August 10, 2021

Leadership Cross-Training: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada

May 25, 2021

What Workers Want: Stanford Professor Nick Bloom

April 20, 2021

Finance at the Foundation: TraceHQ

March 25, 2021

CNBC Interview LinkedIn with founder Reid Hoffman on the future of work after Covid

February 16, 2021

The Cyber Arms Race: Nicole Perlroth & Glenn Chisholm

September 22, 2020

Wade Foster, Zapier CEO on How Their Distributed Workforce Thrives

August 25, 2020

Interview w/Shishir Mehrotra, Powering the Maker Generation at Coda

August 06, 2020

From Seed to Series A: What Sarah Guo and Reid Hoffman Look for in Investments

July 28, 2020

Building for the Distributed Future: Interview w/Shortcut CEO Kurt Schrader

July 07, 2020

Breakthrough Innovation: w/Aaron Levie, CEO Box 🎙

April 28, 2020

Engineering Leadership Community: Blitzscaling with Reid Hoffman

March 25, 2020

This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis:

April 24, 2018

Building an AI Powered Society, w/Andrew Ng

March 15, 2018

Is There A Pony In There?