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Sarah Guo
American investor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sarah Guo (Chinese: 郭睿) is an American tech investor. She is the founder and managing partner at the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners.
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Early life and education
Guo grew up in Wisconsin to Chinese immigrant parents. Her parents worked for Bell Labs.[1] After attending Phillips Academy, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), and a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Career
Guo initially worked at Casa Systems, a cloud networking company started by her parents, which launched in 2003 and went public in 2017.[4][5] She then worked at Goldman Sachs.
In 2013 Guo joined Greylock Partners,[6] Whilst still in her twenties she became the firm's youngest General Partner.[7]
Guo left Greylock, and in October 2022 launched a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI, Conviction.[8] with a second fund in late 2024 with Mike Vernal.[9] Conviction's investments include early investments in Harvey_(software),[10] Cognition AI,[11] Sierra,[12] HeyGen,[13] and Mistral AI.[14]
Guo is on the Midas Seed list of top investors. [15] She appears in media outlets as an expert in AI, infrastructure, business software, cybersecurity, and software engineering.[16][17] [18] [19][20] She co-hosts the podcast No Priors with tech founder and super angel Elad Gil.[21]
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Personal life
Guo is married to Pat Grady, a senior partner at Sequoia Capital. They have 2 daughters.[4]
References
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