Sarah Guo

Sarah Guo is an American venture capitalist. She is the founder of the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners.[1] Guo grew up in Wisconsin, and was a competitive figure skater as a child.[2] Guo's father, Jerry Guo, emigrated from Hunan, China, to the United States in 1987 after graduating from Tsinghua University. Her mother, Lucy Xie, an assistant professor (engineering), followed a year later, and both were hired by Bell Labs. In 2003, her father founded Casa Systems, a broadband equipment company based in Andover, Massachusetts, which her mother later joined.[3] Guo built the company's first website at age 14 and was pitching the company to investors by 19. Casa went public on the Nasdaq in December 2017 at a market capitalization of roughly $1.2 billion, though eventually filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024.[4] After attending Phillips Academy, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School.[5] In 5 years, she earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), and a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.[6] Guo moved to San Francisco in 2012 to work at Goldman Sachs, where she worked on Workday's initial public offering.[7] She was recruited to in 2013 to Greylock by Aneel Bhusri, Workday's CEO and a Greylock partner.[8] At Greylock, Guo along with GP John Lilly, invested in the Series A of Figma and worked on Musical.ly, the app that later became TikTok.[3]