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Sarah Guo isn’t late to the AI party

Equity

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Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Guo isn't late to the AI party, but she did just raise a $101 million fund to bet on the appetizers. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work, and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha and Alex interviewed Guo, who worked at Greylock for nearly a decade, and her launch of Conviction.  We spoke about the self-correcting venture market, what made her leave Greylock, and even rewound to her last episode with us (recorded almost exactly three years ago).  There was also an especially fruitful conversation about the opportunity in artificial intelligence right now, and how she's defining Software 3.0. (Warning: We talk about SaaS!) We also dug into why she started a fund, the LP market, and more. The conversation ran a bit long, but it felt reasonable to keep going given the sheer breadth of stuff that we wanted to get through. Don't forget that Equity is going to be live at Disrupt next week, on Tuesday morning. It's going to be a blast. And before we go, two programming notes (that help your wallet, too): First up, use code “EQUITY” for a special listener discount for Disrupt tickets. We’re less than one month away! We also have a special for those impacted by layoffs. If you were laid off, go here to get a free ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt’s Expo. Equity drops every Monday at 7 a.m. PT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, a show that details how our stories come together and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.2

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha

0:18.4

Masgrinas and this is our Wednesday show where this week we're nicheing down

0:21.8

to a single person thinking about their work and

0:24.2

unpacking the rest and that's the perfect way to bring on Alex well home who's

0:28.1

not the subject of the episode Alex you're just the co-host with me hello.

0:32.0

Yeah I think if we interview me,

0:33.4

it'd be the most boring show of all time.

0:35.1

Are you kidding?

0:35.9

Most of shows are interviewing each other.

0:37.5

I think that it's fantastic.

0:39.5

This is why podcast have a bad reputation

0:42.0

is because I think they just all talked to one another.

0:44.7

But no, we haven't done a lot of interviews on the show since the pandemic started.

0:47.5

We've been out of our studio, but we have someone today that we're frankly very excited about.

0:51.1

Yeah, so this is a return guest.

0:53.2

It's Sarah Goa, the founder of Conviction,

0:55.2

which is a VC firm that she announced last week

0:57.6

all about software 3.0, it closed 101 million.

1:00.4

I mean, it checks off all the boxes of what equity is interested in, but the conversation, which we just wrapped up, I think maybe more present than I have been in a while when interviewing people, because I mean, it ranged everything from why AI sensationalism sucks to you know bobcats in her

1:16.6

backyard eyeing her down during the interview.

1:19.1

Yeah we did get it into wildlife that was not where I expected this conversation to go. We also

1:23.4

got to talk about SAS and building a new venture capital firm, the LP market. We

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