Sarah Guo:28岁成Greylock最年轻合伙人,押注AI初创

Great piece on my good friend @saranormous! Grateful for everything you do.

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看看Sarah Guo怎么用几十亿赌注挑战OpenAI和Anthropic,她投的公司个个争气。

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2018年,28岁的Sarah Guo成为Greylock史上最年轻合伙人。四年后她创立AI基金Conviction,在ChatGPT发布前投资Baseten和Harvey,两者估值均超110亿美元。Conviction首年投资的Sierra、Cognition、Mistral合计估值达540亿美元。Guo押注前沿AI实验室无法垄断应用层,通过投后支持帮助初创公司对抗巨头。

原文 · Scott Wu

Great piece on my good friend @saranormous! Grateful for everything you do.

Great piece on my good friend @saranormous ! Grateful for everything you do. Colossus @colossusmag In 2018, Sarah Guo became the youngest general partner in Greylock's 60-year history. She was 28. Four years later, she quit to launch Conviction, a firm staked entirely on AI. Before ChatGPT shipped, she seeded Baseten and Harvey; each is now worth over $11 billion. In Conviction's first year, she wrote early checks into Sierra, Cognition, and Mistral; those three companies are now worth, together, $54 billion. Andrej Karpathy worked out of Conviction's office until Anthropic hired him in May. Guo has been close to Jensen Huang for over a decade. Her first two calls after starting the firm were to Sam Altman and Nat Friedman. And yet the investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against its biggest companies. The two big frontier labs, worth close to a trillion dollars apiece, no longer just want to build the models. They also want to build every product and company on top of them, leaving nothing for anyone else. The market is paying as though they might succeed. Of the $300 billion in venture capital deployed in the first quarter of 2026, the biggest quarter in the history of the trade, 65% went to only four companies: Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo. Guo is betting the labs can't build everything, and she spends her days making sure of it. She won Harvey its first client. She flew across the country to take a single Baseten candidate to a four-hour lunch. On one wedding anniversary, she spent the whole weekend on back-to-back calls, keeping two founders on the line so they couldn't speak to rival firms. Twice a year, she flies the world's brightest young founders to San Francisco and inducts them into the fight. In the months @domcooke spent reporting this piece, @saranormous had her fourth child, walked the Met Gala in 45 pounds of chainmail, and still answered her founders' texts within minutes. Guo's parents arrived from China in 1987 with $50, built a company, and took it public at $1.2 billion. Then it went bankrupt. Guo grew up inside that startup. She built its first website, did her homework in a cubicle, and slept over for bug bashes. She loved it. If two labs build everything, no one gets to do that again. Welcome to Sarah's Wager. Read it below. 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 1 🔄 2 ❤️ 14 👀 2123 📊 2 ⚡