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i'm kind of an obsessive note taker, im, and i don't almost do it in meetings. So one of the things that i did early on in my time at greylock ad, before i was a g p, was actually just tryi to understand how my partners were making decisions. And then when you if you, if you keep track of the companies and your own thinking, and then how that thinking played out, right or wrong, at every stage? I've no interest in doing something for 30 years if i don't think i'm goin to be great at it, right? How do we actually make sure we're like, progressing in that direction?

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