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Sarah Guo

Founder & General Partner, Conviction · 2 appearances on the record.

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Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI-native startups, and co-hosts the technology podcast No Priors. Previously, she was a General Partner at Greylock Partners, where she invested in companies including Figma, Coda, and Neeva.

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Guo: Cheaper AI code generation will increase software volume, not replace developers
“If we take the cost of software and high quality software down two orders of magnitude, we're just gonna end up with more software in the world. We're not gonna end up with fewer people doing development.”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 20:27 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Insight
Guo: Incumbents lack the reasoning trace data needed for AI automation
“And then one disappointing learning that we found in our own portfolio is no one has the data we want. In many cases, right? So imagine you are trying to automate a specific type of knowledge work and what you want is the reasoning trace all of the inputs and …”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 21:56 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Opinion
Guo: Emerging VC firms can outmaneuver incumbents with outdated mental models
“Maybe that there'd be an advantage versus the incumbent venture firms in that when the floor is lava, the dynamics of the markets change, the types of products and founders that you back change it's a lot for existing firms to ingest. And a lot of their mental…”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 2:23 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guo: Breaking 10% on SWE-bench went from impossible to accessible in 2024
“If you recall, like a year ago, the point of view on sweet bench was like, it was impossible to surpass. Team percent or so. And I think the whole industry now considers that if not trivial accessible.”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 8:43 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Insight
Guo: Test-time scaling allows AI startups to pass compute costs to customers
“I think an underappreciated impact of test time scaling is you're going to better match user value with your spend on compute. And so if you are a new company that can figure out how to make these models useful to somebody, the customer can pay for the compute…”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 16:55 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Insight
Guo: Seat-based SaaS incumbents face an innovator's dilemma from AI automation
“There's a really strong innovator's dilemma. If you look at the SaaS companies that are dominant, they sell by seat. And if I'm doing the work for you, I don't necessarily want to sell you seats. I might actually decrease the number of seats.”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 21:15 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Insight
Guo: Software has returned to a hardware era driven by compute optimization
“We're back in the hardware era where people are acquiring and managing and optimizing compute. And I think that will really matter in terms of capability and companies.”
Sarah Guo Dec 21, 2024 ▶ 24:38 The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build Jun 3, 2026 3m
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS] Dec 21, 2024 12m
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