Investment Strategy: Defining New Markets with Sarah Guo
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We talk to a lot of exciting startups from all over the world about their tech products. Recently we’ve heard from people innovating in the blockchain space, cloud infrastructure, databases, and automation tools. However, in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how these tech startups get investments to build their great products in the first place. When do teams begin seeking investments? How do they show the promise of their products?
Today we’re talking with Sarah Guo, a Venture Capitalist and General Partner at Greylock. Greylock invests in market defining founders, like the teams at Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Docker, Okta, and Dropbox. Sarah brings a lot of valuable experience in identifying companies with potential and we’re very excited to welcome her to today’s episode.
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