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every year every show No Priors 22 20VC 17 TBPN 5 My First Million 4 Latent Space 2 the Neon Show 2 Lenny's Podcast 1 the Startup Ideas Podcast 1

Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Conviction comes up on No Priors, 20VC, TBPN, My First Million, Latent Space

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The Billion Dollar AI Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia Aug 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

▶ 9:17 Karan Goel From a couple of funds like Factory and Conviction, um, and, um, you know, um, Lightspeed as well was part of that.
▶ 55:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia In your first round, you had, you know, cognition,

Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture Aug 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

▶ 0:44 Sarah Guo For any new founders out there, it's also time to apply to embed Conviction's low-overhead, high-signal grant program for 10 exceptional startups building at the frontier. 2 times in the scene

Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI Mar 20, 2026 · 1 mention

▶ 3:03 Sarah Guo We have a, uh, we have a team that we work with at Conviction that their setup is everybody is like, you know, none of the engineers write code by hand and they, they're all microphoned and they just like whisper to their agents all the…

“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey Dec 28, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 1:22:59 Matt McGinnis And in particular, uh, like I, the conviction, which is like Mike for now and Sarah Goa, like, I think those are two investors

20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

▶ 1:01:45 Harry Stebbings And then you have this new generation, which is your convictions, your use, and many new great firms. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures Nov 14, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 45:44 Shawn Wang And that's why I like, I don't really know how to categorize anthology funds because it looks like a kind of like a, what Conviction's doing, what, uh, what YC is doing maybe, but like later stage, right?

No Priors Ep. 138 | The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 13:50 Sarah Guo One of the biggest surprises of AI and a core principle for us here at Conviction is how it can make bad markets suddenly good ones.

No Priors Ep. 135 | With Humans& Founder Eric Zelikman Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 28:08 Sarah Guo Like, one of the very core principles we have at Conviction for how we make decisions is, well, what is the very long-term thing we want, right?

I gave away $1M to prove anyone can build with AI Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 14:14 Greg Isenberg And people like Sarah Guo, founder and investor of Conviction, don't have a lot of available time.

No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner Sep 11, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 47:25 Sarah Guo I look at this with great interest given, you know, I feel I'm part of two partnerships, mine at Conviction professionally, and then also me and my husband, Pat.

No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 46:45 Sarah Guo I think like, you know, Dylan might angel invest, or we might back you fully if you, if you win the cognition poker game, uh, and we'll host a conviction.

Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale Jun 14, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 46:38 John Coogan So, uh, Sarah Guo at conviction, former, uh, former guest on the show, friend of the show, uh, said that apple transcription is still so bad.

Why Patience Is the Secret to Building Iconic Companies | Mike Vernal on TBPN Apr 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

▶ 19:44 unnamed speaker It's like the founder wants to talk and, um, why, uh, why, why conviction and why, why partner with Sarah? 3 times in the scene

Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 14, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 1:11:06 Victor Lazarte And then I'll, I'll go, like, early I'll go with Conviction, because I think Sarah, Sarah's great.

Andrew Reed on Sequoia and How to Be a World-Class VC Mar 28, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 2:54 Andrew Reed It was Sarah Guo, who's now at Conviction.

No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 10:24 Sarah Guo And I think, you know, we'll get to talking about AI, but at least for us at Conviction, the view is it is very hard as an environment to predict even, you know, what happens with the technology, what applications are relevant, but you can…

The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS] Dec 21, 2024 · 1 mention

▶ 1:42 Sarah Guo Uh, we started a venture fund called Conviction about two years ago.

No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 · 1 mention

▶ 6:48 Sarah Guo And the launch of Conviction, everybody.

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 · 4 mentions

▶ 26:57 Shaan Puri So you have this website, conviction.com. 2 times in the scene
▶ 59:15 Sarah Guo And we actually do this grant program, Embed, embed.conviction.com, to create that kind of community and a bunch of other stuff. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 67 | With Voyage AI Co-Founder and CEO Jun 6, 2024 · 1 mention

▶ 6:23 Sarah Guo This is actually, I mean, a core premise, even for the investing fund that I started a conviction in that, you know, somebody's doing the bulk of the work for you in a more general way.

No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase Mar 28, 2024 · 1 mention

▶ 21:26 Sarah Guo The first commit to Langchain, I think, was in October of 22, which is, like, when I launched, um, Conviction as a fund as well.

No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Feb 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

▶ 0:07 Sarah Guo For potential AI founders, my early stage AI fund, Conviction, is accepting applications for its Embed Accelerator for two more days. 2 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 47 | With Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu Jan 18, 2024 · 1 mention

▶ 14:23 Sarah Guo and we believe at Conviction is that people are going to build pipelines that look like search pipelines attached to a large language model in many more domains.

No Priors Ep. 42 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Nov 30, 2023 · 6 mentions

▶ 24:24 Elad Gil I didn't change the name of your fund. 6 times in the scene

20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents Sep 15, 2023 · 1 mention

▶ 16:43 Harry Stebbings We're going to kick off today with Sarah Guo, founder and general partner at Conviction Capital.

No Priors Ep. 20 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Jun 8, 2023 · 1 mention

▶ 12:13 Sarah Guo We held a, um, like an AI DevTools hackathon for a bunch of like college-age new grad builders at the Conviction offices this past weekend.

Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2023 · 13 mentions

▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings But the most exciting thing is you've started a new fund recently with conviction,
▶ 2:59 Harry Stebbings Um, but I wanted, okay, so we mentioned conviction. 4 times in the scene
▶ 7:04 Sarah Guo If, um, if, uh, like all this is execution anyway, like if we at Conviction are right in the long term, and this is the most important technology change of the decade, and we're good at selection and execution, and we invest in this…
▶ 16:24 Harry Stebbings Um, but, um, my point being, like, it's actually impactful and important that you're in the biggest and the best names, especially as you establish a conviction brand.
▶ 43:28 Harry Stebbings How much did the domain name conviction.com cost? 2 times in the scene
▶ 49:08 Harry Stebbings You navigated the LP market with conviction.
▶ 51:48 Sarah Guo It's been great to like have a smaller fund and just be collaborative. 3 times in the scene

No Priors Ep. 13 | With Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of NVIDIA Apr 25, 2023 · 1 mention

▶ 46:40 Sarah Guo And so my firm's named conviction, you can have agility.