When people build internet products without assuming there will be adversarial actors I just send them this photo
sarah guo
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sarah guo
@saranormous
startup investor/helper, founder @conviction. accelerating AI adoption, interested in progress. tech podcast: @nopriorspod
- People are often taken aback how anti-communist I am ~This is what happened to my family
- 😓 the number of companies out there that won't pay $20K a year for off-the-shelf SaaS, but then spend unlimited engineering effort building internal tooling themselves and then complain they don't have enough engineering capacity
- Finally, there is so much exciting work happening in the AI application layer. Who did I miss that's interesting?
- 1/ I was today years old when I was advised for the 2nd time in my career to “be less stylish” because l might “intimidate engineers” I am working with. 🤯
- not yet written about, but funny - there are now folks helping researchers negotiate their comp packages and taking a fee. like agents for athletes
- Some personal news: We raised $100M for @w_conviction, an new early-stage venture capital firm purpose-built for Software 3.0 sarahguo.com/blog/conviction
- 1/ After almost a decade of incubating and investing in startups at @GreylockVC, I have decided to start something new! 🌱
- What a mistake it is to title-chase when choosing a startup 🤦🏻♀️. SVP at a company goes nowhere is SVP of nothing. Early teammate at a company that becomes a $10B+ platform biz, grows into a staff engineer, an SVP of product, an extraordinary leader. Choose company, not title.
- Cloud ops team at @zoom_us, the whole world economy is relying on you. 💕
- SF right now (especially if you’re in AI) is electric. There’s more seriousness from higher quality builders than there has been in more than 5 years, the heat-seekers mostly left, ambitious technical people are moving here, and good ideas and idea collision are happening.
