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Infographic: What Sarah Guo's Move From Greylock to Conviction Teaches About Selective Career Timing in Q4 2026

Original article: What Sarah Guo’s Move From Greylock to Conviction Teaches About Selective Career Timing in Q4 2026

A timeline infographic from 2012 to 2026: Guo joins Greylock in 2013 and becomes its youngest GP in 2018; a 2016 near-miss starting an AI company with Andrew Ng is marked 'technology wasn't there'; Conviction launches with a $100M fund on Oct 4, 2022, eight weeks before ChatGPT on Nov 30, 2022; the fund stays small at eight people; and by mid-2026 Conviction has three funds near $1B with Baseten and Harvey each worth more than $11B
She earned the option for a decade, wrote the thesis down before consensus, and right-sized the vehicle to match the stage of the idea.