Greymatter
Greylock Partners
How do tech startups go from idea…to iconic? Greymatter’s weekly podcast features interviews with VCs, founders, and tech visionaries on everything from AI, marketplaces, and cybersecurity as well as company-building strategies like growth, finding product-market-fit, and recruiting top talent. Founders and VCs offer candid accounts of success, failure, and adaptation. Greymatter delivers practical insights mixed with the bold optimism that defines entrepreneurship.
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Jun 16, 2016 • 1h 11min
CIO Panel with Diana McKenzie and Manjit Singh | Greyscale
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
Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 13min
Overview of the Five Stages of Blitzscaling | Blitzscaling 01
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
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Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 12min
Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders | Blitzscaling 02
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 2, 2016 • 1h 20min
Michael Dearing on Capitalism, Creativity, and Creative Destruction | Blitzscaling 03
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 2, 2016 • 1h 13min
Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit | Blitzscaling 04
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 2, 2016 • 1h 15min
John Lilly on Leveraging Community to Scale Mozilla | Blitzscaling 05
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 2, 2016 • 1h 3min
Jennifer Pahlka on Founding Code For America and Starting the US Digital Service | Blitzscaling 06
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 2, 2016 • 1h 13min
Mariam Naficy on Lessons From The Dot Com Days and Knowing When To Blitzscale | Blitzscaling 07
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
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Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 23min
Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google | Blitzscaling 08
Eric Schmidt discusses his career journey, leadership dynamics at Google and Apple, hiring practices, managing growth challenges, small teams driving innovation, and personal tolls in scaling high-growth companies
Mar 2, 2016 • 1h 21min
Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue on Why and How They Scaled LinkedIn | Blitzscaling 09
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
