VC
Sarah Tavel
Venture Partner at Benchmark
"Will AI be as big of a catalyst for a consumer AI wave as mobile?"
sarahtavel.substack.com · Sep 3, 2025
The benefits of writing code two days every week without AI, and why the percentage of code written by AI is a vanity metric.
sarahtavel.substack.com · Aug 20, 2025
An AI "Metamorphosis": Transforming into an AI-native company.
sarahtavel.substack.com · May 19, 2025
My New Role at Benchmark
sarahtavel.substack.com · Apr 29, 2025
James Raybould on Being AI-Forward
sarahtavel.substack.com · Feb 3, 2025
Pushing Yourself Beyond the Google Mindset of Self-Reliance (and Embracing Personalization)
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jan 23, 2025
Getting started with Claude Projects: Starting the day off right
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jan 17, 2025
Leveraging AI
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jan 14, 2025
Thinking through the future for LLM companies... and what this means for B2B AI startups
sarahtavel.substack.com · Sep 26, 2024
The big stack game of LLM poker
sarahtavel.substack.com · Aug 20, 2024
Rolling Thunder of AI Opportunities
sarahtavel.substack.com · Apr 19, 2024
How AI startups offer a 100x + cheaper disruptive value prop that unlock new markets (think: HeyGen, ElevenLabs, DeepL)
sarahtavel.substack.com · Apr 1, 2024
A few "Sell Work, Not Software" updated thoughts
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jan 19, 2024
AI startups: Sell work, not software
sarahtavel.substack.com · Aug 21, 2023
The Mitochondria in Startups
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jul 25, 2023
Benchmark's New General Partner, Victor Lazarte
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jul 24, 2023
Don't Fall Into the Trap of Taking the Wrong Lessons from Others' Success
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jul 14, 2023
Time to start cross posting on Threads :)
sarahtavel.substack.com · Jul 6, 2023
"They're the ones who reached out to me"
sarahtavel.substack.com · May 4, 2023
How to escape competition -- Building enduring application-level value with LLMs
sarahtavel.substack.com · Apr 24, 2023