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Greg Reyes on Unfettered Conversations with A and Z

Mar 19, 2021

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The Job of a Great Leader Isn't to Have a Cram Down

02:07

Corporate Law

03:13

How Are You Thinking About the Next Ten Years?

02:02

Introduction

4min

Brocade - The Next Big Thing?

4min

Stock Options

2min

What Happened When the Wheels Wlow Up the Cart?

4min

Do You Need an Attorney?

3min

What's the Point of the Litigation?

2min

I Think I Was Hit by an Unlucky Lightning Bolt

2min

The Accounting Rule That You Were Prosecuted For

3min

What Happened When You Resigned From Your Job?

3min

10.

What Happened in the First Trial?

3min

11.

What Did You Hear Mister Rays Say?

2min

12.

Did I Win on Appeal?

2min

13.

I've Never Heard of Being Tried Twice for the Same Crime

3min

14.

I'm Going to a Correctional Institution in Taft, California

2min

15.

A, What Did You Do to Prepare Um?

2min

16.

How to Be Successful at Anything

3min

17.

The Prisoner's Experience

3min

18.

The Half Way House

4min

19.

The Stigma of a Felon

3min

20.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving, Guys

3min

21.

The Process of Getting a Pardon From President Trump

5min

22.

I'm Going to Vote Hard With Shawnar, and I'll Work With You

3min

23.

Gregoreus vs the President, Grego, I Don't See How This Is Going to Happen at All

2min

24.

The Demons Are Back in the Bottle

5min

25.

What Do You Get?

3min

26.

How Are You Thinking About the Next Ten Years?

2min

27.

Do You Think It's Better Than in the Past?

2min

28.

The Job of a Great Leader Isn't to Have a Cram Down

2min

29.

Corporate Law

3min

30.

Stock Options - What Kind of Fraud Are There?

2min

31.

Social Media and the Board of Directors

2min

32.

'Sir, Come On, Don't Wore on Half, Take on Half'

1min

In this occasional Clubhouse series, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk with Greg Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications who was recently pardoned after being convicted of and serving time for the fraudulent backdating of corporate stock options. Greg talks about his career before his conviction, his case and the SEC, his time in prison and what life was like after, the presidential pardon process, his advice for leaders today, and more. Catch Ben and Marc's Clubhouse show live at 7pm PT every Monday.