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- 2023
- No Priors 🎙️119: Kevin Scott, CTO Microsoft (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️117: The AI Will See You Now: With Karan Singhal (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️116: With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder DeepMind and Inflection (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️115: Kelvin Guu, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️114: AI Investment Hype, Foundation Models, Regulation, Opportunity Areas, and More (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️113: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️112: Noam Shazeer, Founder and CEO of Character.AI (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️111: Matei Zaharia, Founder and CTO of Databricks (TRANSCRIPT)
- Temporary Markets and “Easy” Problems
- No Priors 🎙️110: Alex Graveley, Chief Architect GitHub Copilot, Founder/CEO Minion.AI (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️109: Aravind Srinivas & Dennis Yarats, Cofounders Perplexity AI (TRANSCRIPT)
- Every Company Needs an AI Strategy
- No Priors 🎙️108: Sridhar Ramaswamy, Cofounder/CEO Neeva (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️107: Percy Liang, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors 🎙️106: Daphne Koller, Cofounder/CEO insitro (TRANSCRIPT)
- No Priors🎙105: Clem Delangue, Cofounder/CEO HuggingFace (TRANSCRIPT)
- observations on AI startups in early 2023
- No Priors 🎙104: Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Founder/CEO Zipline (TRANSCRIPT)
- 2022
- Iconversation with Freddy Kerrest, Founder/COO Okta 📺
- Iconversation with Jeff Lawson, Founder/CEO Twilio 📺
- Iconversation with Aneel Bhusri, Founder/CEO Workday 📺
- Iconversation with Eric Yuan, Founder/CEO Zoom 📺
- 2021
- Iconversation with Bret Taylor, President/COO Salesforce 📺
- CNBC Disruptor 50: Tech Trends Livestream 📺
- WSJ Tech Live: Workers Miss Social Connection in the Zoom Era 📺
- WSJ: Greylock’s Sarah Guo Sounds Alarm on Heightened Cybersecurity Risks 🔗
- Leadership Cross-Training: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada🎙
- What Workers Want: Stanford Professor Nick Bloom 🎙
- Finance at the Foundation: TraceHQ 🎙
- CNBC Squawk Alley: The Future of Work 📺
- The Cyber Arms Race: Nicole Perlroth & Glenn Chisholm 🎙
- 2020
- Zapier CEO Wade Foster on How Their Distributed Workforce Thrives 🎙
- Interview w/Shishir Mehrotra, Powering the Maker Generation at Coda 🎙
- From Seed to Series A: What Sarah Guo and Reid Hoffman Look for in Investments 🎙
- Building for the Distributed Future: Interview w/Shortcut CEO Kurt Schrader 🎙
- Breakthrough Innovation: w/Aaron Levie, CEO Box 🎙
- Engineering Leadership Community: Blitzscaling with Reid Hoffman 📺
- This Week in Startups w/Jason Calacanis 📺
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For @saranormous, the ⚰️ emoji means “I’m dead, let me share something funny.” She shares her other phone habits, from the cities in her weather app to why she carries her phone “naked,” in Screentime:https://t.co/VNEKxPpYlV
— The Information (@theinformation) August 20, 2022 -
1/ After almost a decade of incubating and investing in startups at @GreylockVC, I have decided to start something new! 🌱
— sarah guo 🌱 (@saranormous) June 7, 2022 -
the venture industry could use a little more curiosity, a little more punk, and a lot more diversity
— sarah guo 🌱 (@saranormous) June 9, 2022 -
When people build internet products without assuming there will be adversarial actors I just send them this photo pic.twitter.com/mxii6X7OhF
— sarah guo 🌱 (@saranormous) May 21, 2022 -
Those @chain_runners 3D avatars are insanely realistic! An alien, a human and a bot airdropped into a party in LA. pic.twitter.com/ZChdvDMcYc
— sarah guo 🌱 (@saranormous) March 1, 2022 -
Ok ok fine, #ETHDenver! pic.twitter.com/2gwFconMkb
— sarah guo 🌱 (@saranormous) February 17, 2022 -
Long day, quick 🧵
— Sarah Guo 🌱 (@saranormous) September 22, 2021
1/ We're doubling down on backing founders from Day One with $500M of seed capital @GreylockVC. The world is transitioning to a technology economy. We want to invest in the startups that power that transition, preferably early: https://t.co/ug9zzgwoMo -
😓 the number of companies out there that won't pay $20K a year for off-the-shelf SaaS, but then spend unlimited engineering effort building internal tooling themselves and then complain they don't have enough engineering capacity
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) June 23, 2021 -
1/n The anti “low-code, no-code” sentiment amongst some developers is misguided.
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) June 16, 2021 -
1/ 🧵Discussion from this AM: Good early stage SaaS startup engineering today is a game of intelligently walking the tightrope of shipping speed and scalability/quality. Most fall off on the wrong side (the latter).
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) June 1, 2021 -
Couldn't help myself. pic.twitter.com/g1YleDMiiT
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) May 1, 2021 -
If you’re an early stage VC basing your decisions on whether other early stage VCs like the company you’re looking at
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) May 7, 2021
You’re in the wrong job -
topics of interest, April 2021 https://t.co/oT3LYvn2L7 pic.twitter.com/HUqTfmL4Jy
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) May 1, 2021 -
Trying something new: public log of topics I’m spending some time thinking about. pic.twitter.com/urgS4bbf6L
— SarahGuo.eth (@saranormous) February 19, 2021