

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Creating Massively Valuable Companies.Previously, Sarah worked with Casa Systems, a venture-funded technology company that develops a software-centric networking platform for cable and mobile service providers Resources She is on the board of Obsidian and also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix, and Skyhigh.īefore joining Greylock, Sarah was at Goldman Sachs, where she invested in growth-stage technology startups such as Dropbox and advised pre-IPO technology companies such as Workday (as well as public clients including Zynga, Netflix, and Nvidia). Sarah joined Greylock Partners as an investor in 2013 and spends a lot of her time thinking about opportunities in B2B applications and infrastructure, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and healthcare. Sarah Guo General Partner Greylock Partners He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University. His new book is Blitzscaling, based on his Stanford course of the same name. He is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-Up of You and The Alliance. He is the host of Masters of Scale, an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests. Also, he serves on many not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub, and Do Something. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo, and a few early-stage companies still in stealth. Part of the secret and the thing that’s great about Silicon Valley is that, while we compete intensely, we also collaborate intensely. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. SPEAKER Reid Hoffman Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Partner Greylock PartnersĪn accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses.
