# Sarah Guo

Founder, Conviction. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. She built her family's company website at 14, pitched investors at 19 and became Greylock's youngest-ever general partner at 28. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))

- Education: BA, BS, MBA, MA, University of Pennsylvania ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))
- Career: Conviction (Founder, 2022 to now); Greylock (General Partner, 2013–2022); Goldman Sachs (2012–2013) ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahxguo))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/sarah-guo/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/sarah-guo

- Built the first website for her family's broadband equipment company at 14 and was pitching it to investors by 19. It later went public on the Nasdaq. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))
- Earned four degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (a BA, a BS, an MBA and an MA) in five years. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))
- Was a competitive figure skater as a child growing up in Wisconsin. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))
- Became Greylock's youngest-ever general partner at 28, after helping lead its Series A investment in Figma. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guo))
- Wrote seed checks into Baseten and Harvey before ChatGPT launched; each is now valued at more than $11 billion. ([colossus.com](https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/))
- Her first two calls after founding Conviction were to OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and investor Nat Friedman. ([colossus.com](https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/))