Sarah Guo joined Greylock Partners as an investor in 2013 and is on the board of Obsidian and also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix and Skyhigh. Guo's mission is to partner with founders to productize disruptive ideas, get advantaged distribution and build dominant businesses. She is interested in almost everything where technology can be used as a weapon to get us to the future faster. Guo spends a lot of her time thinking about opportunities in B2B applications and infrastructure, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and health care.
Prior to joining Greylock, Guo was at Goldman Sachs, where she invested in growth-stage technology start-ups, such as Dropbox, and advised pre-IPO technology companies, such as Workday (as well as public clients, including Zynga, Netflix and Nvidia). Previously, Guo worked with Casa Systems, a venture-funded technology company that develops a software-centric networking platform for cable and mobile internet service providers.
Guo is an advocate for STEM education for women and the underserved. She has taught marketing in the Wharton Undergraduate Program and served as a teaching fellow in lower-income high schools for the Philadelphia World Affairs Council. She has four degrees from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania and is part of LinkedIn's Next Wave and the Forbes' 30 Under 30.
