Honoring the Alliance During Covid
Forging Lifetime Work Relationships Amid Career Changes
Blitzscaling During Covid
Growth Strategies Amid Turbulence
Transformational Moments
Learning from Jeff Weiner
Planning for Volatility
Investing, entrepreneurship and career planning during economic and social uncertainty.
In Praise of Professional Venture Capital
It’s become fashionable among some entrepreneurs, and even some venture capitalists, to badmouth the venture capital industry. The industry certainly has many flaws. But to paraphrase Winston Churchill, venture capital is the worst method for financing scaling startups except for all the others. One of the conversations I had with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo), during…
Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons
Silicon Valley can frequently be too provincial in its views of entrepreneurship, strategy, and markets. Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for…
Argentina Entrepreneurship, Endeavor, and Global Lessons
I’ve come down to Argentina with my friend and portfolio company CEO, Wences Casares, the founder of Xapo. Wences and I have served on the board of Endeavor together, which enables high impact entrepreneurship around the world. As part of connecting with local Argentinian entrepreneurs and part of the amazing Endeavor networks here and South America, Wences and I…
Aurora: The Next Leg of the Road Trip Begins!
In the early decades of the 20th century, automobility at scale ushered in new patterns of living and a new era of broad-based prosperity in America. For some time now, I’ve believed autonomous vehicles can do the same. So when the opportunity arose last year for Greylock to co-lead the $90 million Series A round in…
Our Investment in Callisto
As has been reported and documented, sexual coercion, harassment, and assault have unfortunately become the experience of many women and women founders in tech. In June of 2017, I published “The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs” (fka #DecencyPledge) as a response to news media reports of sexual harassment and assault in the venture capital industry.…
Our Investment in Entrepreneur First
Today, I am excited to announce our investment in Entrepreneur First. At Greylock, our mission has always been to back and support entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We focus on early stage startups and help scale their ideas on a global scale. By investing in EF, we are both investing…
Michael McCullough Joins Greylock as an EIR
I’m excited to share the news that Michael McCullough, MD is joining Greylock as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Michael and I overlapped at both Stanford and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and I was a Marshall Scholar. But I only met Michael when I returned to Silicon Valley and he was one of the entrepreneurs…
Josh Silverman Joins Greylock Partners as EIR
It is my pleasure to announce that Josh Silverman is joining Greylock Partners as an Executive-in-Residence. Josh has rapidly scaled and helped run some of the most innovative companies, including American Express, Skype, eBay and Evite, and will bring a wide set of skills and expertise to Greylock. He will wrap up his work as the President…
The Future of the Bitcoin Ecosystem and “Trustless Trust” – Why I Invested in Blockstream
Bitcoin is often characterized in the media as a volatile virtual commodity that can optimize speculation even more efficiently than gold, securitized subprime mortgages, or tulips. That’s not how I think about it. For me, Bitcoin is a transformative addition to Internet communication protocols that will create new networks of trust, fuel massive economic ecosystems,…
What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their financing decks. Because we value integrity and confidentiality…