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

Guo's Firm Goal: Close Proximity to Frontier AI Talent

Sarah Guo describes her firm's goal to be intimately familiar with the ~250 individuals driving progress in AI, from entrepreneurs to researchers. The strategy is to know these key people, support them, and be close to their work.

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There's sort of 250-ish people that you think about or you guys think about that are some combination of entrepreneurs and researchers and, you know, doing the most interesting things on the frontier.
Sarah Guo
The people that are actually showing up in the morning and pushing this whole thing forward and that one of your goals as a firm is to be as close to those people as possible. Know them all and support them and support them in as many ways as possible.
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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Guo's Firm Goal: Close Proximity to Frontier AI Talent — Heardvine