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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Guo on the "Great Person" Theory in AI Development

Sarah Guo supports the "great person" theory of history, stating that high-agency individuals with the right support can significantly influence AI outcomes. She believes entrepreneurs can affect the direction of AI development, even if she doesn't frame it as a 'war'.

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I believe in like the great man and great woman theories of history. If you have very high agency people in all these places and they have the correct risk capital or support in the network or environment, yeah, you change outcomes.
Sarah Guo
I definitely think that individual people and entrepreneurs can affect the outcome. I don't necessarily think of it as a war.
Sarah Guo
Heard on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy — “Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489], published Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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