# Sarah Guo — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Sarah Guo
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Sarah Guo: founder of the AI-native venture firm Conviction, former Greylock general partner, and co-host of No Priors — built from her essays and investment theses, the X/Twitter archive @saranormous that is her primary daily output, her first-person No Priors discussions, and long-form interviews on AI-native software, venture judgment, founders, organizations, security, and technological progress, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
- Page: https://researcher.now/e/sarah-guo
- JSON: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/sarah-guo?include=all
- Sources: 105
- About report version: v6

## About

Sarah Guo’s central pattern is pragmatic techno-optimism: she treats AI as a foundational shift that can expand human agency, creativity, productivity, and company formation, but she is unusually focused on the conversion layer where raw capability becomes trusted workflow, revenue, security, evals, distribution, and organizational change. Her worldview is neither “the labs will build everything” nor “every wrapper wins”; it is that the last mile between intelligence and real-world impact is long, domain-specific, and full of judgment, and that founders with pace, taste, customer intimacy, and operational discipline can turn that gap into enduring companies. [fd0ca7d4-85a0-4c3c-866e-49167a6560cf, 9e988af3-a336-4f85-b7ef-7d734f936690, 7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, aa2325c7-2d62-439d-8ab6-63a8904ff797]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **AI-native company formation:** Guo’s core investing theme is “Software 3.0”: companies built around manipulating foundation models rather than merely adding AI features to SaaS-era products. [fd0ca7d4-85a0-4c3c-866e-49167a6560cf, 951327e2-9dc2-4b8c-9880-c67345db51a1]
- **Applications over raw model access:** She repeatedly argues that value accrues where models are turned into deep products: context packaging, orchestration, workflow ownership, UX, customer trust, and distribution, as in her “Cursor for X” framing. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 7c62ac6b-e614-45e0-ae8b-0f1c8bba0307]
- **Enterprise absorption as the real bottleneck:** Her AI adoption lens centers on security reviews, evals, reliability, acceptable quality bars, integration, workflow redesign, procurement, and change management rather than just model benchmarks. [91427736-a06a-4ca4-8179-dad111db1dc3, 60529e3a-3235-4d01-bd84-2158c85fe348]
- **Founder agency, pace, and intensity:** She looks for founders who combine a long-term north star with paranoia, speed, and willingness to update as models, customers, and competitors change. [2deb8be5-4d17-40f3-9b29-28e5e4161dcd, 68b8be99-488e-4a1d-be4d-9fe3c4f6e4d1]
- **Workflow-rich verticals:** She is drawn to legal, healthcare, insurance, security, finance, customer support, SMB operations, productivity, and other domains where large amounts of text, decisions, and manual coordination can be reorganized by AI. [951327e2-9dc2-4b8c-9880-c67345db51a1, 91427736-a06a-4ca4-8179-dad111db1dc3, 78f430a3-3852-4117-8e65-a1befa4c616e]
- **Infrastructure as strategic substrate:** Although application-centric, she tracks inference, evals, model routing, open models, data centers, GPUs, energy, security, and model customization as constraints shaping which application companies can win. [054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015, a17b4647-e39e-4f83-9f20-a9a16f326f3a, 9041a670-8257-4c30-b7aa-3ed08f981cb7]
- **Human-computer interaction:** She keeps returning to the question of how people should interact with AI—chat, copilots, agents, multimodal inputs, passive context, templates, voice, intelligent cameras, and workflow-native interfaces. [294df5d2-db17-45f5-997f-377294f8188b, 7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be]
- **Taste and product craft:** Her recent writing elevates taste as a moat in a world of abundant code: the compounding effect of thousands of product decisions, not just aesthetics or feature volume. [2b2e9140-eb1c-4d72-a06b-61cc7b0cb03d]
- **Venture as opinionated craft:** She frames Conviction as a firm built around a generational AI thesis, concentrated bets, founder relationships, brand, network, and a willingness to be publicly wrong rather than generic capital allocation. [75773876-1655-4d3d-b343-a0a79ccb0bde, cf97422a-688b-4843-bac5-357398010966]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Customer-back beats capability-forward:** Guo thinks AI founders often start with “what can the model do?” when durable applications start with “for what customer, with what painful workflow, at what quality bar?” [7c62ac6b-e614-45e0-ae8b-0f1c8bba0307, 8c4c948d-64eb-4b75-87a7-183bfadb7740]
- **Execution is the AI moat:** She rejects thin-wrapper fatalism by arguing that moats emerge from product depth, workflow specificity, speed, customer experience, distribution, and the ability to keep shipping as capabilities move. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 629867bb-8e88-4d46-bf17-6736060de300]
- **Intellectual honesty compounds:** Across founder evaluation and investor judgment, she values people who know what is not working, can update quickly, tolerate uncomfortable truth, and avoid narrative self-deception. [5b22a363-f198-4354-9b54-ad59034dcea3, 1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca, 6ff0ac87-5997-4d8c-b6f7-0f569f995099]
- **Ambition must be paired with integrity:** She rejects the “founder-asshole” myth, arguing that ambition and edge matter, but the founders people want to help also show customer focus, transparency, team care, and authentic mission. [6ff0ac87-5997-4d8c-b6f7-0f569f995099]
- **Fast feedback beats elegant theory:** Her startup advice emphasizes shipping, customer conversations, measurable adoption, usage, revenue, and high-resolution market contact over abstract strategic diagrams. [1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca, 76c71324-0b53-4b95-ac90-9a2d7d97080c]
- **Cash generation is the end state:** Even in AI exuberance, she wants founders to understand that companies ultimately become cash-flow-generating machines, and that spend must translate into durable free cash flow or justified investment. [1d458347-a054-409f-b4f1-3a4469a6be0a, 77b2e053-387a-43f6-a6d2-a3ddd8ababa9]
- **Venture funding is not default:** She believes founders should raise venture only when their ambition, growth path, accountability, ownership trade-offs, and desired partner relationship fit the institutional venture model. [f568df0c-fb4d-461b-a6dd-fa4a006c6920]
- **Small, aligned teams gain leverage:** She sees AI as increasing individual capability and favoring focused, software-dense teams, while large organizations face coordination costs and slower change. [1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca, a5160269-e535-4dba-a7ce-7b4ed061ae44]
- **Progress requires agency, not cynicism:** She is comfortable with risk and disagreement, but skeptical of performative cynicism; conviction is useful because it filters noise long enough for ideas to be tested. [1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca, 75773876-1655-4d3d-b343-a0a79ccb0bde]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **AI is a multi-decade secular shift:** Guo has committed her career and firm around the belief that AI is the largest technology revolution she will participate in, while acknowledging that many current bets and spend patterns will fail. [150669a1-2493-4492-974d-e20f5033ef4a, 7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be]
- **The application wave is still early:** She expects more AI value to surface through vertical and workflow-specific applications as domain experts and customer-focused builders learn to manipulate foundation models. [629867bb-8e88-4d46-bf17-6736060de300, 258fa789-e869-46b9-ab9a-708baaacaf52]
- **Models become cheaper, more plural, and more specialized:** Her model-market view expects competition among closed, open, small, fine-tuned, routed, and domain-specific models rather than a single deterministic winner. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 2fb9489e-6aca-4f1b-b8aa-63422304f5e9]
- **Agents will matter, but augmentation wins first in many domains:** She is excited by agentic systems, yet often advises building Iron Man-style copilots and workflow augmentation before assuming full autonomous replacement. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 9041a670-8257-4c30-b7aa-3ed08f981cb7]
- **AI will pressure mature SaaS:** She expects some systems of record and SaaS categories to be disrupted where AI can generate higher-quality source-of-truth data, automate human-update workflows, or attack services spend around the software. [2deb8be5-4d17-40f3-9b29-28e5e4161dcd, 84c8cf86-def0-4d2d-946e-aa46d0afb14d]
- **Software abundance shifts the bottleneck to judgment:** As code generation becomes cheaper, she predicts the scarce work becomes deciding what should be built, maintaining quality, understanding code, managing “dark code,” and coordinating organizations. [2b2e9140-eb1c-4d72-a06b-61cc7b0cb03d, 280792f9-1d1f-452b-bfc6-f0ea8d43c557]
- **Robotics is becoming investable again:** After years of skepticism, she now sees general physical intelligence, home robotics, and robot data collection as plausible near-term frontiers, while still treating hardware, data, and manufacturing constraints as real. [a5160269-e535-4dba-a7ce-7b4ed061ae44, 9b4790b5-1d76-4126-b8f0-1ab1b68e6e7c, 2b2e9140-eb1c-4d72-a06b-61cc7b0cb03d]
- **Healthcare and education are high-upside social domains:** She repeatedly names healthcare and education as places where cheap intelligence can move cost and access curves, while emphasizing that human and institutional constraints will slow realized progress. [951327e2-9dc2-4b8c-9880-c67345db51a1, 054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015, 22be6e3b-4af3-4b0c-8b1f-4eddf189acd5]
- **2026 narratives broaden beyond model labs:** Her forward-looking comments point to AI trading, LLM advertising, enterprise agents, consumer agents, robotics, scientific models, and application-layer value as the next visible AI storylines. [6af48934-c387-4661-951a-a475a22c64ea]

## Recurring questions

- **Where is the durable moat when models improve?** Guo repeatedly asks whether advantage sits in workflow, private correctness, data, evals, distribution, product surface, pricing, systems integration, or model-layer capability. [9e988af3-a336-4f85-b7ef-7d734f936690, 5b22a363-f198-4354-9b54-ad59034dcea3]
- **What is the customer actually trying to do?** Her diligence frameworks push founders to describe the pain, status quo, buyer priority, business case, adoption blockers, and scope before building or fundraising. [8c4c948d-64eb-4b75-87a7-183bfadb7740, 7188ea79-da20-484f-bc8f-72f51bfcc032]
- **How does AI move from demo to production?** She is preoccupied with the gap between magical demos and reliable production systems: evals, latency, cost, security, integrations, permissions, user education, and acceptable failure. [91427736-a06a-4ca4-8179-dad111db1dc3, e82b7cd6-6319-42d7-863d-a334f5727649]
- **What should be automated versus augmented?** She often frames AI products along a spectrum from copilot to autonomous agent, asking where humans need to stay in the loop because of trust, accountability, latency, or failure costs. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015]
- **Which “bad markets” become good?** Guo looks for cases where AI changes the economics of historically slow or unattractive markets—legal software, healthcare operations, insurance, customer support, back office, and services-heavy categories. [951327e2-9dc2-4b8c-9880-c67345db51a1, f6e386a8-2d3e-4c0e-9b66-5e30ba2b9d2d]
- **What do incumbents actually care about?** Her advice to founders is to analyze incumbents’ priorities, organizational physics, distribution, and focus rather than assume any large lab or platform will rationally pursue every adjacent opportunity. [aa2325c7-2d62-439d-8ab6-63a8904ff797, 1d458347-a054-409f-b4f1-3a4469a6be0a]
- **How should AI products be priced?** She keeps probing whether AI companies should price by seats, consumption, outputs, value created, services replaced, or domain-specific business outcomes. [7c62ac6b-e614-45e0-ae8b-0f1c8bba0307]
- **What skills matter in the AI era?** She asks how software engineering, product management, eval-writing, model manipulation, domain expertise, and education change when models can code, reason, and act. [150669a1-2493-4492-974d-e20f5033ef4a, ef43b76d-11ec-4a37-b5f2-0b7da460893c]
- **How does society earn trust in the buildout?** In infrastructure and societal-impact conversations, she asks how AI benefits become tangible enough—in health, education, local business, and broad participation—to earn public permission. [054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015, 22be6e3b-4af3-4b0c-8b1f-4eddf189acd5]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Capability optimism versus absorption realism:** She believes AI can radically expand human capability, yet repeatedly argues the limiting factors are organizational change, trust, private context, workflow redesign, and people moving slower than models. [22be6e3b-4af3-4b0c-8b1f-4eddf189acd5, 9e988af3-a336-4f85-b7ef-7d734f936690]
- **Application enthusiasm versus anti-wrapper discipline:** She is bullish on many AI application wedges, but sharply distinguishes thick workflow companies from shallow prompt boxes that can be copied, absorbed, or crushed by the next model release. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 629867bb-8e88-4d46-bf17-6736060de300]
- **Founder agency versus market structure:** She foregrounds special founders and execution, while also acknowledging that compute, hyperscalers, platform distribution, incumbent bundles, and capital markets can heavily shape outcomes. [a90f990e-941a-460e-bee3-be9a3a16b0ec, 054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015]
- **Speed versus enterprise trust:** Her startup doctrine prizes pace, iteration, and high-variance action, but her enterprise AI lens demands careful evals, reliability, security, compliance, procurement, and human-in-the-loop design. [91427736-a06a-4ca4-8179-dad111db1dc3, e94bdf7f-1f14-4c52-ba16-effb0a951099]
- **Abundance narrative versus commercial discipline:** She argues AI can free human attention and expand ambition, but also insists that founders understand pricing, sales, cash flow, CAC, free cash flow, and whether they are venture-scale. [4349d0c5-aca5-428b-b297-41210549cc5a, 77b2e053-387a-43f6-a6d2-a3ddd8ababa9, f568df0c-fb4d-461b-a6dd-fa4a006c6920]
- **Open experimentation versus real risk:** She worries about misregulation and regulatory capture, but also takes near-term harms seriously: fraud, hacking, deepfakes, misinformation, agent security, and ungoverned enterprise AI behavior. [951327e2-9dc2-4b8c-9880-c67345db51a1, 2b2e9140-eb1c-4d72-a06b-61cc7b0cb03d]
- **Meritocratic optimism versus structural awareness:** She celebrates tech’s idea-driven meritocracy and personal agency, while also acknowledging reference-driven network effects, gender double standards, diversity frictions, and the importance of ecosystem access. [fecfa80c-9439-4ded-a5e8-5d50ca75c6f8, 906ac719-733b-46fb-b64f-27a28e8de5e5, 2e8d7b01-b684-4d83-8dfe-d173576d1238]
- **Tiny-team future versus relationship-heavy venture:** She sees AI enabling highly leveraged small teams, yet her venture worldview still depends on trust, long-term relationships, brand, tribal knowledge, and founder-investor alignment. [a5160269-e535-4dba-a7ce-7b4ed061ae44, 75773876-1655-4d3d-b343-a0a79ccb0bde]

## Unifying threads

- **The last mile is the market:** Guo’s worldview consistently locates value in the distance between general intelligence and specific impact: getting models into legal matters, clinical workflows, sales pipelines, support calls, software repos, and enterprise systems. [2deb8be5-4d17-40f3-9b29-28e5e4161dcd, 9e988af3-a336-4f85-b7ef-7d734f936690]
- **Judgment is the scarce input:** Whether discussing venture decisions, software abundance, AI evals, founder taste, or organizational change, she treats judgment about what matters as more valuable than raw execution capacity. [2b2e9140-eb1c-4d72-a06b-61cc7b0cb03d, 1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca]
- **Agency converts technology into progress:** Her preferred actors are founders, teams, and institutions that take ownership, act before consensus, learn from customers, update their models, and keep moving through ambiguity. [75773876-1655-4d3d-b343-a0a79ccb0bde, 2deb8be5-4d17-40f3-9b29-28e5e4161dcd]
- **AI rewards domain intimacy:** She believes the winners beyond coding will be builders who know a domain’s workflows so well that they can make AI show up informed rather than forcing users to prompt or explain their jobs. [7dbf9aa7-dbf8-4574-9743-7c05f4a8f1be, 91427736-a06a-4ca4-8179-dad111db1dc3]
- **Systems beat single calls:** Her practical AI architecture instinct favors compound systems—retrieval, routing, tools, evals, permissions, orchestration, context, harnesses, and private data—over isolated model calls. [fdf3a638-eb5b-4fa7-9b1a-6704a9c48d23, 054118d2-49b3-41c3-be35-14e640f4b015]
- **Progress is nonlinear but not mystical:** She treats the AI moment as extraordinary, but analyzes it with startup basics: customer demand, pricing, sales motion, cost curves, gross margins, team quality, market structure, and adoption friction. [7c62ac6b-e614-45e0-ae8b-0f1c8bba0307, 77b2e053-387a-43f6-a6d2-a3ddd8ababa9]
- **Human potential is the moral center:** Beneath the investment analysis is a belief that AI should expand what people can build, learn, express, and contribute—not train them to expect a smaller future. [4349d0c5-aca5-428b-b297-41210549cc5a, 1817c270-5896-4372-bb72-893aef6fd8ca]
- **Conviction is both brand and method:** Her firm-building posture mirrors her worldview: choose a generational market, form a point of view, build a network and institution around it, and accept that being early or wrong in public is the price of finding out. [fd0ca7d4-85a0-4c3c-866e-49167a6560cf, 75773876-1655-4d3d-b343-a0a79ccb0bde]

## Sources

- VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of No Priors · cognitiverevolution.ai — https://cognitiverevolution.ai/vc-insights-on-investing-in-artificial-intelligence-with-sarah-guo-and-elad-gil-of-no-priors
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · podscripts.co — https://podscripts.co/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups
- Why “the labs will build it” is the wrong startup fear | Sarah Guo (Conviction) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSQ9ObF8zE
- Investing with Conviction | Sarah Guo, Founder of Conviction | Ep. 5 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUrgLyEioZ4
- Discussing Silicon Valley's Bright Future with Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcffqaIi-Jg
- Greylock's Sarah Guo on investment thesis, sharpening decision-making, state of VC  | Angel S4 E8 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFPQ5INfkY
- 10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMvnKX0yeJw
- Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycEl3WkbEDY
- Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2cmBhAmoA
- State of Startups and AI 2025 - Sarah Guo, Conviction transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZS5gNElZM
- No Priors: CJ Desai in Conversation with Sarah Guo | MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIfRhwmsS-Q
- AI market evolution with Conviction's Sarah Guo transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckf-AAhlEU
- Snowflake Summit 2025 Opening Keynote With Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, And Sarah Guo transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf39VG87O8
- Insights from the Cutting Edge of AI Investing: A Conversation with Sarah Guo, Founder of Conviction transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u4QdcZQ4DQ
- Conviction in an AI-Native World with Sarah Guo | 2025 Upfront Summit transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gHtO2lJmM
- Sonya Huang and Sarah Guo on what's next in AI | Mercury Spheres transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNL14eA8YSY
- Build 2026 Podcast: Satya Nadella, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil from No Priors, and Swyx from Latent Space transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE90Yc5TuCs
- No Priors Ep. 138 | The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEJjJq1I28
- No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-I9OarQT0
- No Priors Ep. 81 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c83JI8zYZxw
- No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKbcWgksYAg
- Sarah Guo on SaaS Investing and Building an Enterprise Company transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6mBtvwN0Q
- No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rHaV3mkUG4
- No Priors Ep. 59 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLUI2AujblE
- No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4M1cW5mH_c
- No Priors Ep. 63 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2o6UQbYxQ
- No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSHXE5r1mQY
- No Priors Ep. 35 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcH-ikqhVj4
- No Priors Ep. 27 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=docb9AzOvN8
- Anatomy of a Software 3.0 Company // Sarah Guo // AI in Production Keynote transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqHtIls7sM
- Venture Capitalist Sarah Guo’s Surprising Bet on Unsexy AI transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2cdQMywGD0
- A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkvVZua28k
- Amazon + OpenAI, Sarah Guo, Doug O'Laughlin, David Senra transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZatti6mVM
- Sarah Guo and Elad Gil: The Future of AI Investing transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socH3hAUx3w
- No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4TldCRLyoo
- No Priors Ep. 20 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTFUcPiodGU
- No Priors Ep. 14 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5461t6ACpk
- AI's Future: Investment & Impact with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of the No Priors Podcast transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV4t6AY4KN8
- VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of No Priors transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMDBa9zAwY
- Sarah’s Wager · colossus.com — https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction
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- Building for the Distributed Future: Interview w/Shortcut CEO Kurt Schrader · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/shortcut-pod
- Greylock's Sarah Guo on investment thesis, sharpening decision-making, state of VC | Angel S4 E8 · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/angel-podcast
- Workers Miss Social Interactions in Zoom Era, Greylock Partner Says · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/wsj_social_zoom
- The Cyber Arms Race: Nicole Perlroth & Glenn Chisholm · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/cyber-arms-race
- Wade Foster, Zapier CEO on How Their Distributed Workforce Thrives Automating (Remote) Work · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/automating-remote-work
- Interview w/Shishir Mehrotra, Powering the Maker Generation at Coda · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/coda
- 20VC: In AI Who Wins? Startups or Incumbents? What Happens to Wealth Inequality? Why Will $10BN+ Companies Only Have 10 People | Why Defensibility in Startups is BS & Speed is Everything? Why Large Groups Worsen Decision-Making with Sarah Guo · thetwentyminutevc.com — https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/sarah-guo
- Building an AI Powered Society, w/Andrew Ng · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/andrew-ng
- Leadership Cross-Training: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/leadership-crosstraining-jennifer-tejada
- From Seed to Series A: What Sarah Guo and Reid Hoffman Look for in Investments · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/seed-to-a
- What Workers Want: Stanford Professor Nick Bloom · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/nick-bloom-what-workers-want
- Launching With Conviction - Sarah Guo - Substack · saranormous.substack.com — https://saranormous.substack.com/p/launching-with-conviction
- “If your product is the 27th priority for Google, it’s actually not that scary.” | Rippling · linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rippling_if-your-product-is-the-27th-priority-for-activity-7477777880719028226-dYGx
- Finance at the Foundation: TraceHQ · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/finance-foundation-trace
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups - The 2026 AI Forecast: Foundation Models, IPOs, and Robotics with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Transcript and Discussion · podscripts.co — https://podscripts.co/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups/the-2026-ai-forecast-foundation-models-ipos-and-robotics-with-sarah-guo-and-elad-gil
- VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of No Priors · cognitiverevolution.ai — https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/vc-insights-on-investing-in-artificial-intelligence-with-sarah-guo-and-elad-gil-of-no-priors
- VCs Elad Gil and Sarah Guo on the risks and rewards of funding AI: 'The biggest threat to us in the short run is other people' | TechCrunch · techcrunch.com — https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/renowned-investors-elad-gil-and-sarah-guo-on-the-risks-and-rewards-of-funding-ai-tech-the-biggest-threat-to-us-in-the-short-run-is-other-people
- Investor Sarah Guo Shares Her Advice on How to Make It in Silicon Valley - Business Insider · businessinsider.com — https://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-guo-conviction-venture-capital-startups-ai-goldman-2025-2
- From SaaS to AI-First: How Companies Are Reshaping Innovation transcript · podcasts.apple.com — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-saas-to-ai-first-how-companies-are-reshaping-innovation/id1668002688?i=1000750471227
- Sarah Guo · sarahguo.com — https://sarahguo.com/
- saranormous.substack.com — https://saranormous.substack.com/feed
- 2018 AI Frontiers Keynote · sarahguo.com — https://sarahguo.com/blog/aifrontiers
- How Fast to Hire · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/howfast
- Every Company Needs an AI Strategy · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/everycompany
- Observations on AI Startups in Early 2023 · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/observations
- Is There a Pony In There? · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/pony
- Temporary Markets and "Easy" Problems · sarah-guo.herokuapp.com — https://sarah-guo.herokuapp.com/blog/temporary-markets
- Powerful AI has radical potential long term benefits, not just radical risks | Sarah Guo · linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahxguo_dario-amodei-machines-of-loving-grace-activity-7250811546572840961-vDo6
- I wrote an essay for The Humanist Review of AI, a new editorial publication exploring AI’s impact on the world. | Sarah Guo · linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahxguo_i-wrote-an-essay-for-the-humanist-review-activity-7483562055040520192-3TpP
- Not A Normal Market - Sarah Guo - Substack · saranormous.substack.com — https://saranormous.substack.com/p/not-a-normal-market
- Sarah Guo | Substack · saranormous.substack.com — https://saranormous.substack.com/
- The Untrainable - Sarah Guo · saranormous.substack.com — https://saranormous.substack.com/p/the-untrainable
- "Runway" is the wrong way to plan · linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/runway-wrong-way-plan-sarah-guo
- Correcting a Misperception: The Founder-Asshole | by Sarah Guo | Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@saranormous/correcting-a-misperception-the-founder-asshole-8cb8e82a9c8
- Not Every Startup Should Be Venture Backed | by Sarah Guo | Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@saranormous/not-every-startup-should-be-venture-backed-970d728059d
- What do I look for in a pitch?. Founders will often ask me, “Do you… | by Sarah Guo | Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@saranormous/what-do-i-look-for-in-a-pitch-866355bddb3
- Clippy's Revenge — Smart Messaging as Platform Shift · medium.com — https://medium.com/@saranormous/clippy-s-revenge-39f7387f9aab
- Sarah Guo – Medium · medium.com — https://medium.com/@saranormous
- Conviction's Sarah Guo on the SaaSpocalypse, AI reskilling as a venture opportunity, and the coming ChatGPT moment for robotics | TBPN Digest · tbpndigest.com — https://www.tbpndigest.com/story/2026-03-24/convictions-sarah-guo-on-the-saaspocalypse-ai-reskilling-as-a-venture-opportunity-and-the-coming-chatgpt-moment-for-robotics
- Sarah Guo on neo labs, AI trading, storytelling, and what she's watching heading into 2026 | TBPN Digest · tbpndigest.com — https://www.tbpndigest.com/story/2025-12-17/sarah-guo-on-neo-labs-ai-trading-storytelling-and-what-shes-watching-heading-into-2026
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups - The Best of 2024 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Transcript and Discussion · podscripts.co — https://podscripts.co/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups/the-best-of-2024-with-sarah-guo-and-elad-gil
- No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Transcripts | spoken.md · spoken.md — https://spoken.md/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups
- thinking (creatively) with machines · linkedin.com — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thinking-creatively-machines-sarah-guo
- The 2026 AI Forecast: Foundation Models, IPOs, and Robotics with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil - No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups | iHeart · iheart.com — https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-no-priors-artificial-intel-110460921/episode/the-2026-ai-forecast-foundation-models-313833925
- 1/ The Valley is very reference-driven. A sinister side effect of that which relates to diversity: · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/833746815329587200
- Morals of the @zoom_us entrepreneurial fable: · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1118891959794356229
- Take action! I’m matching $20K in donations to your pick of the @NAACP_LDF @eji_org @MNFreedomFund @PolicingEquity #GeorgeFloyd https://t.c… · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1266592067553071109
- 1/ I’ll say it if no one else will. Women CEOs are held to a different standard. · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1271644969141329920
- Pulling term sheets at the beginning of a correction, in March 2020 or now, is a great way to ruin your reputation with earlier stage inves… · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1485678667158233093
- @DavidSHolz @michael_nielsen how does one get in contact with @davidsholz for an interview, can trade · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1651754335536070656
- Am I traveling backwards in time yet? Puréed super veggie for breakfast cc: @bryan_johnson #blueprint https://t.co/TCRixmQLIW · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1696528070449213544
- @rod_mallo @mrexits @bryan_johnson Are we being honest Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1696697555248398740
- @nikitabier Nah, who cares if he’s hot? I want open source AI models and a cage match with Elon · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1707740816079491233
- VC firms in California… “must report, for example, the race of the people they back, as well as their disability status and sexual orientat… · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1711786983901855819
- ok, @elonmusk wins. native content: full video of interview with @ilyasut on @nopriorspod (2 weeks ago) https://t.co/vO4lhrUDC6 · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1726694479929946442
- how can you work on anything except AI right now · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1758236178422407390
- for people who DM me that the "CSS doesn't load" on the https://t.co/SNGwN9n9O8 website, nope. that's the point. that's the whole website · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1761844739018461207
- trolling earnest people is a move for losers · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1763376061906026841
- Next up on @NoPriorsPod: @_albertgu @krandiash @cartesia on SSMs, alternative architectures to transformers, and real time AI Matt German n… · x.com — https://x.com/saranormous/status/1806093666718814507

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