Greylock's Josh Elman chats with Slow Ventures founder and partner Dave Morin about social networks, his experience building the Facebook platform, and learnings from his startup Path. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative products that change lives and create habits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 12, 2017•31 min
At #ProductSF, Greylock's Sarah Tavel is joined by Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann to talk about the evolution of his roles as both CEO and product leader at a high growth company. Ben shares how thinks about distribution, hiring and scaling teams, and what makes a strong product manager. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative p...
Dec 06, 2016•32 min
Growth expert and managing partner at NFX Guild James Currier teaches us, in the words of the wise master Yoda, to unlearn what we have learned about scaling a business. He provides eight counter-intuitive examples for ways to think about growing and developing an early product. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative products that c...
Dec 06, 2016•28 min
dScout CEO Michael Winnick shares his eye opening research on how people interact with mobile technology. According to him, an average user touches their phone 2.5K times a day over 90 sessions, while a heavy user can reach over 4.6K touches a day in 300+ sessions. Another interesting point: apps owned by Facebook and Alphabet account for 43% of all touches. A lot of interesting data and insight into how we interact with our phones. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partne...
Dec 06, 2016•23 min
Nextdoor Co-Founder and VP of Marketing & Operations Sarah Leary talks about the journey of pivoting from FanBase to Nextdoor. She shares both the emotions and learnings their team took away from the pivot, and how they eventually identified the burning need for a social network for neighborhoods. Sarah highlights the importance of creating a product that is a “need to have” versus a “nice to have” and why it's key to do unscalable things in the early stages of building community products. #...
Dec 06, 2016•30 min
Scott Erickson takes us behind the scenes to the vision and design thinking that went into building Microsoft HoloLens. He demos the many applications that their untethered “mixed reality” technology can have for different industries. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative products that change lives and create habits. Learn more abo...
Dec 06, 2016•23 min
Musical.ly co-founder and co-CEO Alex Zhu takes us through his journey coming from an enterprise software background to starting an education startup and then pivoting into Musical.ly. He talks about the distribution hacks they used to instrument viral growth and how they think about fostering their user community. He also updates us on what's going on in the technology landscape in China. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a communi...
Dec 06, 2016•29 min
Google Group Product Manager Ellie Powers tells us some of the “secrets” every product manager should know about Android and Google Play. Many PMs and developers don't know that Google offers a lot of design and testing support. Ellie gives us a good breakdown on how we can test and ship high quality Android apps. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of buil...
Dec 06, 2016•31 min
Nir Eyal, the author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” dives into the psychology behind building technology that creates consumer habits. He summarizes his four-step Hook canvas (Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment) and reminds us that it's not the best product that wins—the winner will be the product that forms the monopoly of the mind. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leade...
Dec 06, 2016•33 min
Partner at Greylock and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman offers a candid perspective on lessons learned from getting LinkedIn going and then scaling it beyond. He explains why he had conviction for social networks in the early 2000s and gives the scoop on his first (not as successful) startup Socialnet. He explains how he and his team navigated their financing strategy, and what he did to build his relationship with Jeff Weiner before bringing him on as the LinkedIn CEO. #ProductSF is a product-...
Dec 06, 2016•45 min
The global video game industry is thriving. According to PwC, gaming is expected to grow from $71.3 billion in 2015 to $90.1 billion by 2020. Jason Citron, the CEO and founder of Discord, understands this space very well. He started gaming on the NES when he was five, learned how to program games in high school, founded and sold a social platform for mobile games, and is now building a messaging platform for gamers. Greylock investment partner Josh Elman caught up with Jason to talk about his en...
Nov 02, 2016•34 min
Greylock's Josh Elman sits down with Jelly Co-Founder & CEO Biz Stone to discuss what he learned in the process of pivoting away from — and back to — his original idea of Jelly, how the product works, and what the future of search might look like. Biz also demos a voice-based version of Jelly on the Amazon Echo that is still in development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 22, 2016•35 min
Following their podcast on managing technical teams, Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo and Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers pair up for another podcast on recruiting and interviewing engineers. Wade outlines the processes he’s developed through years of management and building out teams at Yahoo, Proofpoint, TellApart and now Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 17, 2016•43 min
Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sits down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to discuss the art and science of managing technical teams. Wade shares personal insight into his development as a leader, and shares frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing for a high functioning organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 26, 2016•49 min
In this fireside chat from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock enterprise investor Jerry Chen sits down with Amazon Web Services Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales Mike Clayville to talk about sales strategy, how Mike spots industry trends, and AWS. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2016•56 min
Crafting and executing a go-to-market strategy is one of the biggest challenges for an early stage startup. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock enterprise investor Jerry Chen shares his Unit of Value framework for taking a product to market. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2016•30 min
Recruiting great people is a priority for any company at each stage of growth. Especially in the early stages, hiring your initial team is core to instilling the right company culture. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo outlines what a strong recruiting process should look like - from sourcing to conversion. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2016•16 min
Hiring a critical executive is a long, delicate process that needs to be navigated with thoughtful planning. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock Talent Partner Jeff Markowitz shares the best practices for managing the executive hiring process. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2016•40 min
As an entrepreneur, starting up is just the beginning but scaling up is how you change the world. This Greymatter episode is a fireside chat that took place at Greyscale, an event for tech founders hosted by Greylock Partners. Chris Yeh, the co-author of The Alliance, sits down with Reid Hoffman and John Lilly to discuss how companies go from startup to scaleup. Reid, John, and Chris taught a course at Stanford centered on this theme of hyper-growth called “Technology-enabled Blitzscaling,” and ...
Jun 18, 2016•32 min
Launching a startup isn't easy. At each stage of scaling - from founding to product-market fit, from product-market fit to hyper growth, and from hyper growth to maturity - entrepreneurs face unique challenges. Greylock Partners hosted an event, called Greyscale, focused on these challenges at each stage. In the opening keynote, Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners discusses the state of enterprise software after the first quarter of 2016. He summarizes the private and public markets, M&A activit...
Jun 16, 2016•25 min
In this customer panel at Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock Chief Operating Officer Tom Frangione moderates a panel featuring Workday CIO Diana McKenzie and Clorox CIO Manjit Singh to uncover how they think about early interactions with young companies and forming partnerships with startups. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 16, 2016•1 hr 11 min
This is session 1 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture lays out an overview of the course and provides a summary of the five stages of Blitzscaling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 13 min
This is session 2 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features John Lilly interviewing Y Combinator President Sam Altman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 12 min
This is session 3 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by venture capitalist Michael Dearing, the Founder of Harrison Metal, who is then interviewed by Reid Hoffman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 20 min
This is session 4 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by venture capitalist Ann Mira-Ko of FLOODGATE, who is later interviewed by John Lilly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 13 min
This is session 5 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture recaps the Family stage and introduces the Tribal stage. Allen Blue talks about the early days of LinkedIn and John Lilly talks about the early days of Mozilla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 15 min
This is session 6 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features John Lilly interviewing Jennifer Pahlka, the Founder and Executive Director of Code for America, and Co-founder of the United States Digital Service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 3 min
This is session 7 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features Reid Hoffman interviewing Mariam Naficy, the Founder and CEO of Minted.com, and the Founder and Co-CEO of Eve.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 13 min
This is session 8 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features Reid Hoffman interviewing Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 23 min
This is session 9 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture recaps the previous three sessions and explains how the Village stage is the inflection point for blitzscaling. Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue then move into the when, why, and how of scaling LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 21 min
