Greylock Ventures

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Ai: I was actually a principal for a relativelyely brief period of time at greylock. The way we have structured the firm is basically, you're an investor, you're learning to be investor. You're a g p, and you're still learning to be an invester A, and so we really operate as equals. Ai: We already had a sort of shared, secular thesis in this area. And that's something we try to pursue across a bunch of different domains.

0:52 Jason intros Greylock's Sarah Guo
3:37 How did Sarah wind up at Greylock?
5:45 Sarah explains Greylock's "Zero to One" thesis & typical term commitment of a VC
11:53 How does Sarah measure her personal performance and her portfolio's performance? What are her biggest strengths as an investor?
16:12 How does she sharpen her decision-making skills?
17:53 Ranking her investment criteria: People, Markets & Product
20:26 Balancing intensity & life outside of work, the commitment of early-stage startups
27:26 Work-life balance & how the venture landscape changed over time
35:36 Greylock's structured & what was Sarah's first investment & how did it play into her investment thesis?
43:38 Sarah's investments in work-enabling software
48:00 Sarah recommends Dylan Field of Figma join the show - episode dropping Friday!
49:22 Identifying subtle flashes of brilliance in early products
58:28 Female founders being held to a higher standard
1:02:35 Anti-portfolio: Zoom
1:10:06 Sarah turns off her virtual background and reveals her location