Sarah Tavel is a venture investor at Benchmark who uniquely combines deep operating experience as Pinterest's first product manager and head of core discovery products with her investing background, giving her rare hands-on product and growth expertise in consumer marketplaces. She's known for creating widely-cited frameworks like the "Hierarchy of Marketplaces" and "Happy GMV," and for her distinctive thesis that the next wave of consumer AI will be inherently social rather than solo experiences. Sarah Tavel is a venture investor at Benchmark who uniquely combines deep operating experience as Pinterest's first product manager and head of core discovery products with her investing background, giving her rare hands-on product and growth expertise in consumer marketplaces. She's known for creating widely-cited frameworks like the "Hierarchy of Marketplaces" and "Happy GMV," and for her distinctive thesis that the next wave of consumer AI will be inherently social rather than solo experiences.