Greymatter

By Greylock Partners

Technology Business

What's Greymatter about?

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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Inflection AI | The AI Frie...

05.10.2023

As anyone who has experimented with the latest artificial intelligence tools that generate human-like responses to text, every interaction with technology is increasingly becoming a conversation. Beyond pre-programmed responses based on specific key words, interacting with AI trained on large ...

Greymatter episodes:

05.10.2023 Inflection AI \| The AI Friend Zone As anyone who has experimented with the latest artificial intelligence tools that generate human-like responses to text, every interaction with technology is increasingly becoming a conversation. Beyond pre-programmed responses based on specific key words, interacting with AI trained on large ...
05.02.2023 Jerry Chen \| The New Wave of Cloud Innovation Greylock general partner Jerry Chen analyzes top trends impacting funding, company creation, product launches, and partnerships throughout the cloud ecosystem for 2022 and the first part of 2023. This analysis is based on data compiled for Greylock's Castles in the ...
04.27.2023 Jason Risch \| Three Trends in VC-Backed Cloud Audio version of Greylock investor Jason Risch's essay "Three Trends in VC-Backed Cloud." As part of our Castles in the Cloud project, which maps the activity in the venture capital-funding startup ecosystem with that of the Big 3 Cloud providers, ...
04.18.2023 CNBC's Julia Boorstin \| When Women Lead Re-broadcast of Greylock marketing partner Elisa Schreiber's interview with CNBC Senior Media & Tech reporter Julia Boorstin. While there may be plenty of discussion about the disparity between funding for women-led startups and those led by men, women still receive ...
04.11.2023 Intelligent Money Fintech has perhaps the most to gain from artificial intelligence technology. Even slight improvements in forecasting default rates on a loan or cash flows of a business can have a dramatic economic impact. But for the most part, fintech has ...
04.04.2023 The Post-ATT World Greylock general partner Mike Duboe talks with Treat CEO Matt Osman, Fermat CEO Rishabh Jain, and independent analyst, consultant and investor Eric Seufert about the changing world of commerce performance marketing following the passage of ATT. For years, targeted ads ...
04.03.2023 Sam Altman & Reid Hoffman \| AI Field Notes Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about their mutual learnings from the AI tools released to date, primarily GPT-4 4, OpenAI's language model that co-wrote Hoffman's recent book “Impromptu." Keeping up with all the AI ...
03.30.2023 Reid Hoffman & Saam Motamedi \| AI's Transformative Power Greylock general partners Saam Motamedi and Reid Hoffman talk with Umi Mehta, who is the Global Head of tech Private Equity and Venture Capital Investing at Morgan Stanley. In this conversation, they discuss the current investing environment in the context ...
03.27.2023 Greylock Welcomes Jacob Andreou Greylock welcomes Jacob Andreou as the firm's newest investor. Andreou joins Greylock following 8 years at Snap, where he most recently served as SVP of Growth. There, he ran teams across growth, data science, analytics, and user research, and helped ...
03.21.2023 Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha \| Scaling with Intuition Greylock general partner Asheem Chandna talks with Rubrik CEO and co-founder Bipul Sinha about a core leadership lesson he's learned: not losing sight of one's own intuition, especially during times of high growth. Today, the data security company works with ...
03.16.2023 Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI Audio version of the introduction to Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman’s latest book, entitled “Impromptu: Amplifying Humanity Through AI." Impromptu was co-written by Hoffman and ChatGPT-4, OpenAI’s latest and most powerful large language model. The book aims to serve as ...
03.15.2023 Introducing Possible: A New Podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger A special guest episode of Possible, the new podcast hosted by Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. Possible looks at the future through a decidedly optimistic lens - and what it will take to get there. Each episode ...
03.14.2023 Adept CEO David Luan and Stanford's Percy Liang \| Words into Action A re-broadcast of Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi's interview with Adept CEO and co-founder David Luan and Stanford computer science and statistics professor Percy Liang. In this conversation (recorded in mid-2022), David and Percy discuss how large language models are ...
03.07.2023 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Decision-Making Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman about his strategy for decision-making. Like most companies, Uber has experienced many ups and downs. Getting through each phase (good or bad), depends on how the leadership team responds, ...
02.28.2023 Instacart's Fidji Simo \| Building A Tech-Enabled Food System Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shares the company's vision for building a tech-enabled food system for all. Simo, who previously spent 10 years at Meta, is accustomed to taking bold bets on transformative tech. She spoke with Greylock general partner David ...
02.21.2023 OpenAI's Sam Altman \| AI for the Next Era A re-broadcast of Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman's interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, recorded during Greylock's Intelligent Future summit in August 2022. Founded in 2015, OpenAI has recently released several high-profile products in quick succession: succession: its generative transformer ...
02.14.2023 Stripe's Patrick Collison \| Micro Pessimism, Macro Optimism Navigating uncertain economic conditions is part and parcel of running a business. Yet, throughout challenging times, it’s critical that startups stay committed to continually pushing the possibilities of what technology can deliver, says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. That means leading ...
02.07.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| AI in the Classroom Of the many transformative possibilities of artificial intelligence, its potential to impact education is among the most exciting. It’s also one of the most contentious. While it could extend the reach of over-worked teachers, offer personalized curriculums, and enhance the ...
02.02.2023 Greylock's Yuliya Mykhaylovska \| How to Evaluate and Hire Early Career Candidates Current economic conditions have put thousands of highly qualified candidates in search of new roles. In just a few months, the population of job-seekers will further expand as a wave of fresh graduates – many of whom will be taking ...
01.31.2023 Asheem Chandna \| Leveraging the Downturn Audio version of Greylock general partner Asheem Chandna's essay for Forbes "Four Tasks for CEOs in 2023: Leveraging the Downturn." As Chandna puts forth, while economic recessions can mark the end for many otherwise promising companies, they also present opportunities. ...
01.23.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| The Human-AI Partnership The second episode of Fireside Chatbots featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT, the large language model created by OpenAI. This week, Reid and ChatGPT talk about the ways humans and AI can work together to significantly increase productivity, ...
01.18.2023 Figma's Nairi Hourdajian and Greylock's Elisa Schreiber \| Startup Storytelling Figma's VP of Communications Nairi Hourdajian and Greylock marketing partner Elisa Schreiber discuss how startup founders can approach their communications strategy. Whether a startup is looking to recruit talent, acquire customers, establish thought leadership, or just raise general awareness, having ...
01.12.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| Talking AI with AI Introducing Fireside Chatbots, a miniseries featuring conversations not only about AI, but with AI. Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman talks with ChatGPT, a large language model created by OpenAI. Hoffman, who serves on OpenAI's board, poses questions to ChatGPT about ...
01.10.2023 Tome's Henri Liriani \| Hiring Startup Design Teams Tome CPO and co-founder Henri Liriani and Katy Amaya of the Greylock talent team discuss the rising importance of founding designers at startups and share best practices for building strong design teams. While past generations of startups could get away ...
01.03.2023 Okta's Frederic Kerrest \| Instructive Experiences A re-broadcast of our interview with Okta executive vice chairman, COO, and co-founder Frederic Kerrest, who shares stories from his earliest days as an entrepreneur starting a business in the midst of the Great Recession. The challenging experience is why ...
12.27.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Investing in Vices & Virtues A re-broadcast of our episode featuring the audio version of Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman's essay, "Human Nature in Vices and Virtues: An Adam Smith Approach to Building Internet Ecosystems and Communities," published on the Knight Foundation's website. Hoffman discusses ...
12.20.2022 2022 in Review \| The Year's Top Insights and Advice for Entrepreneurs A compilation of excerpts from 22 of our most popular podcasts of 2022. Greylock's head of editorial Heather Mack walks listeners through through interviews with industry leaders including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Cloudflare's Michelle Zatlyn, Nike's John Donahoe, and more. We're ...
12.13.2022 Zoox CEO Aicha Evans \| Moving People Forward Zoox CEO Aicha Evans speaks with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss how the "robotaxi" company has made safety permeate into every aspect of the company culture and operations; why they are building for dense urban environments; and her ...
12.06.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Bear Market Blitzscaling During economic downturns, is it possible (or even wise) for startup entrepreneurs to deploy growth tactics? Will companies be able to secure funding? Should founders even consider starting a business during a bear market? "100%," says Greylock general partner Reid ...
12.02.2022 Pinata \| Getting Creative at Scale While the short-lived hype of NFTs centered on static jpeg files, there are actually far more use cases that can be deployed for the technology. Omaha-based Pinata has developed a platform that enables web3 app builders to store, manage, and ...
11.29.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Crisis Management A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman in conversation with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh. In this episode (originally recorded in May 2022), Hoffman and Yeh discuss strategies for entrepreneurs to navigate crises - whatever that ...
11.22.2022 Reid Hoffman \| The Importance of Friendship A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman sharing the speech he gave at the 2022 Commencement of Vanderbilt University. Hoffman discusses several key moments in his personal and professional life, including his initial foray into entrepreneurship, ...
11.18.2022 Snorkel AI \| Jumpstarting Data-Centric AI Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi talks with Snorkel AI CEO and co-founder Alex Ratner. As more enterprise organizations have recognized the utility of artificial intelligence technology, there's been a major push to invest in and adopt new AI and ML ...
11.17.2022 Inventa \| Supplying Connections There are millions of entrepreneurs running small retail businesses in Latin America. While they may differ in the types of products sold or specific customers they target, the challenges they face in everyday operations are common. From low credit card ...
11.15.2022 Seth Rosenberg \| Bringing DeFi Lending Mainstream Audio version of Greylock investor Seth Rosenberg's essay "Bringing DeFi Lending Mainstream," read by Greylock's head of editorial Heather Mack. Crypto hype and speculation got us into the current chaotic winter. But the core infrastructure remains, and is still ripe ...
11.08.2022 Rubrik's Bipul Sinha and Steve Stone \| Understanding and Preventing Modern Cyber Attacks Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and Steve Stone, the company's newly appointed head of its research department Zero Labs, sat down with MarketWatch reporter (and Greymatter guest host) Jon Swartz to discuss an inescapable fact of business life: Cyber attacks. They ...
11.01.2022 CNBC's Julia Boorstin \| When Women Lead While there may be plenty of discussion about the disparity between funding for women-led startups and those led by men, women still receive just 2% of all venture capital funding. And yet, many women are still finding success as entrepreneurs. ...
10.25.2022 Rent the Runway's Jennifer Hyman \| Designed by Data Rent the Runway CEO and co-founder Jennifer Hyman and Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman discuss the strategy behind the company's data-driven, online marketplace where people can rent or buy clothing. Rent the Runway launched in 2009 with the mission to ...
10.18.2022 Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott \| The Impact of AI on Cognitive Work Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joins Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman for a discussion about the impact of AI on cognitive (or knowledge) work. Scott, whose company developed the programming assistant tool GitHub Copilot, advises people building machine learning systems (or ...
10.11.2022 Aurora's Chris Urmson + Nuro's Jiajun Zhu \| The Road Ahead for Autonomous Driving Autonomous driving is among the most exciting applications for artificial intelligence. It is also among the most challenging to actually pull off: from the capital-intensive combination of hardware and software to the complex coordination between multiple stakeholders to ensure safety. ...
10.04.2022 Shopify President Harley Finkelstein \| Catalyzing Entrepreneurship Shopify president Harley Finkelstein sat down with Greylock general partner Mike Duboe to discuss the company's evolution along with the overall ecommerce landscape; offer advice to entrepreneurs navigating the current market conditions; and lay out his vision for the future. ...
09.27.2022 AI's Human Factor \| Stanford's Dr. Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI's Mira Murati on AI Safety The more human-like artificial intelligence becomes, the more we understand about how our brains actually work. Through that discovery process, researchers are identifying ways to design artificial intelligence in ways that factor in the safety and morality of their potential ...
09.20.2022 Words into Action \| Progress from Large Language Models to AGI Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi interviews David Luan, who is the co-founder of ML research and product lab Adept, and Percy Liang, who is the associate professor of computer science and statistics at Stanford. In this conversation, they discuss the ...
09.13.2022 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman \| AI for the Next Era Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The AI research and deployment company's primary mission is to develop and promote AI technology that benefits humanity. Founded in 2015, the company has most recently been noted for its ...
09.07.2022 Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi \| Introducing the Intelligent Future Greylock general partners Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi discuss the current state of artificial intelligence, including the most recent technological advancements; top areas for investment; and the ethical considerations needed to ensure tools are developed safely. This discussion is the ...
08.30.2022 Greylock Talent Team \| Building Your Talent Strategy: When, Why, and How to Bring in a Recruiter From developing a repeatable, strategic process and continuously working to identify ways to improve it, founders can take a number of steps to build a culture of recruiting. Sometimes, that means hiring a dedicated talent-sourcing and recruiting team. Greylock talent ...
08.23.2022 Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford \| How To Be A Founder The “talent investor" Entrepreneur First was created with a mission to connect founders no matter where they are in the world, and recruits and backs them at the very earliest stages. By focusing on connecting individuals rather than defined teams, ...
08.18.2022 Espresso \| Privacy and Scalability for Web3 A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock investor Seth Rosenberg's interview with the co-founders of Espresso Systems, which provides configurable privacy and scalability tools for Web3. The company is operating at a critical time for privacy within Web3. Recently, the ...
08.16.2022 Nike CEO John Donahoe \| The Next Play Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews Nike CEO John Donahoe as part of Greylock's Iconversations speaker series. In the interview, Donahoe discusses the iconic sports retailer's digital transformation in recent years; the lessons learned as a four-time CEO; and his ...
08.09.2022 Alchemy \| Bringing Web3 to the World Known as the "AWS of Web3", Alchemy's platform powers most of the top web3 applications around the world. The idea came to founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau following their own frustration when building a crypto analytics tool. Seeing that ...

Older episodes

05.10.2023 Inflection AI \| The AI Friend Zone As anyone who has experimented with the latest artificial intelligence tools that generate human-like responses to text, every interaction with technology is increasingly becoming a conversation. Beyond pre-programmed responses based on specific key words, interacting with AI trained on large ...
05.02.2023 Jerry Chen \| The New Wave of Cloud Innovation Greylock general partner Jerry Chen analyzes top trends impacting funding, company creation, product launches, and partnerships throughout the cloud ecosystem for 2022 and the first part of 2023. This analysis is based on data compiled for Greylock's Castles in the ...
04.27.2023 Jason Risch \| Three Trends in VC-Backed Cloud Audio version of Greylock investor Jason Risch's essay "Three Trends in VC-Backed Cloud." As part of our Castles in the Cloud project, which maps the activity in the venture capital-funding startup ecosystem with that of the Big 3 Cloud providers, ...
04.18.2023 CNBC's Julia Boorstin \| When Women Lead Re-broadcast of Greylock marketing partner Elisa Schreiber's interview with CNBC Senior Media & Tech reporter Julia Boorstin. While there may be plenty of discussion about the disparity between funding for women-led startups and those led by men, women still receive ...
04.11.2023 Intelligent Money Fintech has perhaps the most to gain from artificial intelligence technology. Even slight improvements in forecasting default rates on a loan or cash flows of a business can have a dramatic economic impact. But for the most part, fintech has ...
04.04.2023 The Post-ATT World Greylock general partner Mike Duboe talks with Treat CEO Matt Osman, Fermat CEO Rishabh Jain, and independent analyst, consultant and investor Eric Seufert about the changing world of commerce performance marketing following the passage of ATT. For years, targeted ads ...
04.03.2023 Sam Altman & Reid Hoffman \| AI Field Notes Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about their mutual learnings from the AI tools released to date, primarily GPT-4 4, OpenAI's language model that co-wrote Hoffman's recent book “Impromptu." Keeping up with all the AI ...
03.30.2023 Reid Hoffman & Saam Motamedi \| AI's Transformative Power Greylock general partners Saam Motamedi and Reid Hoffman talk with Umi Mehta, who is the Global Head of tech Private Equity and Venture Capital Investing at Morgan Stanley. In this conversation, they discuss the current investing environment in the context ...
03.27.2023 Greylock Welcomes Jacob Andreou Greylock welcomes Jacob Andreou as the firm's newest investor. Andreou joins Greylock following 8 years at Snap, where he most recently served as SVP of Growth. There, he ran teams across growth, data science, analytics, and user research, and helped ...
03.21.2023 Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha \| Scaling with Intuition Greylock general partner Asheem Chandna talks with Rubrik CEO and co-founder Bipul Sinha about a core leadership lesson he's learned: not losing sight of one's own intuition, especially during times of high growth. Today, the data security company works with ...
03.16.2023 Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI Audio version of the introduction to Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman’s latest book, entitled “Impromptu: Amplifying Humanity Through AI." Impromptu was co-written by Hoffman and ChatGPT-4, OpenAI’s latest and most powerful large language model. The book aims to serve as ...
03.15.2023 Introducing Possible: A New Podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger A special guest episode of Possible, the new podcast hosted by Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. Possible looks at the future through a decidedly optimistic lens - and what it will take to get there. Each episode ...
03.14.2023 Adept CEO David Luan and Stanford's Percy Liang \| Words into Action A re-broadcast of Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi's interview with Adept CEO and co-founder David Luan and Stanford computer science and statistics professor Percy Liang. In this conversation (recorded in mid-2022), David and Percy discuss how large language models are ...
03.07.2023 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Decision-Making Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman about his strategy for decision-making. Like most companies, Uber has experienced many ups and downs. Getting through each phase (good or bad), depends on how the leadership team responds, ...
02.28.2023 Instacart's Fidji Simo \| Building A Tech-Enabled Food System Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shares the company's vision for building a tech-enabled food system for all. Simo, who previously spent 10 years at Meta, is accustomed to taking bold bets on transformative tech. She spoke with Greylock general partner David ...
02.21.2023 OpenAI's Sam Altman \| AI for the Next Era A re-broadcast of Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman's interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, recorded during Greylock's Intelligent Future summit in August 2022. Founded in 2015, OpenAI has recently released several high-profile products in quick succession: succession: its generative transformer ...
02.14.2023 Stripe's Patrick Collison \| Micro Pessimism, Macro Optimism Navigating uncertain economic conditions is part and parcel of running a business. Yet, throughout challenging times, it’s critical that startups stay committed to continually pushing the possibilities of what technology can deliver, says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. That means leading ...
02.07.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| AI in the Classroom Of the many transformative possibilities of artificial intelligence, its potential to impact education is among the most exciting. It’s also one of the most contentious. While it could extend the reach of over-worked teachers, offer personalized curriculums, and enhance the ...
02.02.2023 Greylock's Yuliya Mykhaylovska \| How to Evaluate and Hire Early Career Candidates Current economic conditions have put thousands of highly qualified candidates in search of new roles. In just a few months, the population of job-seekers will further expand as a wave of fresh graduates – many of whom will be taking ...
01.31.2023 Asheem Chandna \| Leveraging the Downturn Audio version of Greylock general partner Asheem Chandna's essay for Forbes "Four Tasks for CEOs in 2023: Leveraging the Downturn." As Chandna puts forth, while economic recessions can mark the end for many otherwise promising companies, they also present opportunities. ...
01.23.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| The Human-AI Partnership The second episode of Fireside Chatbots featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT, the large language model created by OpenAI. This week, Reid and ChatGPT talk about the ways humans and AI can work together to significantly increase productivity, ...
01.18.2023 Figma's Nairi Hourdajian and Greylock's Elisa Schreiber \| Startup Storytelling Figma's VP of Communications Nairi Hourdajian and Greylock marketing partner Elisa Schreiber discuss how startup founders can approach their communications strategy. Whether a startup is looking to recruit talent, acquire customers, establish thought leadership, or just raise general awareness, having ...
01.12.2023 Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT \| Talking AI with AI Introducing Fireside Chatbots, a miniseries featuring conversations not only about AI, but with AI. Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman talks with ChatGPT, a large language model created by OpenAI. Hoffman, who serves on OpenAI's board, poses questions to ChatGPT about ...
01.10.2023 Tome's Henri Liriani \| Hiring Startup Design Teams Tome CPO and co-founder Henri Liriani and Katy Amaya of the Greylock talent team discuss the rising importance of founding designers at startups and share best practices for building strong design teams. While past generations of startups could get away ...
01.03.2023 Okta's Frederic Kerrest \| Instructive Experiences A re-broadcast of our interview with Okta executive vice chairman, COO, and co-founder Frederic Kerrest, who shares stories from his earliest days as an entrepreneur starting a business in the midst of the Great Recession. The challenging experience is why ...
12.27.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Investing in Vices & Virtues A re-broadcast of our episode featuring the audio version of Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman's essay, "Human Nature in Vices and Virtues: An Adam Smith Approach to Building Internet Ecosystems and Communities," published on the Knight Foundation's website. Hoffman discusses ...
12.20.2022 2022 in Review \| The Year's Top Insights and Advice for Entrepreneurs A compilation of excerpts from 22 of our most popular podcasts of 2022. Greylock's head of editorial Heather Mack walks listeners through through interviews with industry leaders including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Cloudflare's Michelle Zatlyn, Nike's John Donahoe, and more. We're ...
12.13.2022 Zoox CEO Aicha Evans \| Moving People Forward Zoox CEO Aicha Evans speaks with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss how the "robotaxi" company has made safety permeate into every aspect of the company culture and operations; why they are building for dense urban environments; and her ...
12.06.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Bear Market Blitzscaling During economic downturns, is it possible (or even wise) for startup entrepreneurs to deploy growth tactics? Will companies be able to secure funding? Should founders even consider starting a business during a bear market? "100%," says Greylock general partner Reid ...
12.02.2022 Pinata \| Getting Creative at Scale While the short-lived hype of NFTs centered on static jpeg files, there are actually far more use cases that can be deployed for the technology. Omaha-based Pinata has developed a platform that enables web3 app builders to store, manage, and ...
11.29.2022 Reid Hoffman \| Crisis Management A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman in conversation with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh. In this episode (originally recorded in May 2022), Hoffman and Yeh discuss strategies for entrepreneurs to navigate crises - whatever that ...
11.22.2022 Reid Hoffman \| The Importance of Friendship A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman sharing the speech he gave at the 2022 Commencement of Vanderbilt University. Hoffman discusses several key moments in his personal and professional life, including his initial foray into entrepreneurship, ...
11.18.2022 Snorkel AI \| Jumpstarting Data-Centric AI Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi talks with Snorkel AI CEO and co-founder Alex Ratner. As more enterprise organizations have recognized the utility of artificial intelligence technology, there's been a major push to invest in and adopt new AI and ML ...
11.17.2022 Inventa \| Supplying Connections There are millions of entrepreneurs running small retail businesses in Latin America. While they may differ in the types of products sold or specific customers they target, the challenges they face in everyday operations are common. From low credit card ...
11.15.2022 Seth Rosenberg \| Bringing DeFi Lending Mainstream Audio version of Greylock investor Seth Rosenberg's essay "Bringing DeFi Lending Mainstream," read by Greylock's head of editorial Heather Mack. Crypto hype and speculation got us into the current chaotic winter. But the core infrastructure remains, and is still ripe ...
11.08.2022 Rubrik's Bipul Sinha and Steve Stone \| Understanding and Preventing Modern Cyber Attacks Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha and Steve Stone, the company's newly appointed head of its research department Zero Labs, sat down with MarketWatch reporter (and Greymatter guest host) Jon Swartz to discuss an inescapable fact of business life: Cyber attacks. They ...
11.01.2022 CNBC's Julia Boorstin \| When Women Lead While there may be plenty of discussion about the disparity between funding for women-led startups and those led by men, women still receive just 2% of all venture capital funding. And yet, many women are still finding success as entrepreneurs. ...
10.25.2022 Rent the Runway's Jennifer Hyman \| Designed by Data Rent the Runway CEO and co-founder Jennifer Hyman and Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman discuss the strategy behind the company's data-driven, online marketplace where people can rent or buy clothing. Rent the Runway launched in 2009 with the mission to ...
10.18.2022 Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott \| The Impact of AI on Cognitive Work Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joins Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman for a discussion about the impact of AI on cognitive (or knowledge) work. Scott, whose company developed the programming assistant tool GitHub Copilot, advises people building machine learning systems (or ...
10.11.2022 Aurora's Chris Urmson + Nuro's Jiajun Zhu \| The Road Ahead for Autonomous Driving Autonomous driving is among the most exciting applications for artificial intelligence. It is also among the most challenging to actually pull off: from the capital-intensive combination of hardware and software to the complex coordination between multiple stakeholders to ensure safety. ...
10.04.2022 Shopify President Harley Finkelstein \| Catalyzing Entrepreneurship Shopify president Harley Finkelstein sat down with Greylock general partner Mike Duboe to discuss the company's evolution along with the overall ecommerce landscape; offer advice to entrepreneurs navigating the current market conditions; and lay out his vision for the future. ...
09.27.2022 AI's Human Factor \| Stanford's Dr. Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI's Mira Murati on AI Safety The more human-like artificial intelligence becomes, the more we understand about how our brains actually work. Through that discovery process, researchers are identifying ways to design artificial intelligence in ways that factor in the safety and morality of their potential ...
09.20.2022 Words into Action \| Progress from Large Language Models to AGI Greylock general partner Saam Motamedi interviews David Luan, who is the co-founder of ML research and product lab Adept, and Percy Liang, who is the associate professor of computer science and statistics at Stanford. In this conversation, they discuss the ...
09.13.2022 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman \| AI for the Next Era Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The AI research and deployment company's primary mission is to develop and promote AI technology that benefits humanity. Founded in 2015, the company has most recently been noted for its ...
09.07.2022 Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi \| Introducing the Intelligent Future Greylock general partners Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi discuss the current state of artificial intelligence, including the most recent technological advancements; top areas for investment; and the ethical considerations needed to ensure tools are developed safely. This discussion is the ...
08.30.2022 Greylock Talent Team \| Building Your Talent Strategy: When, Why, and How to Bring in a Recruiter From developing a repeatable, strategic process and continuously working to identify ways to improve it, founders can take a number of steps to build a culture of recruiting. Sometimes, that means hiring a dedicated talent-sourcing and recruiting team. Greylock talent ...
08.23.2022 Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford \| How To Be A Founder The “talent investor" Entrepreneur First was created with a mission to connect founders no matter where they are in the world, and recruits and backs them at the very earliest stages. By focusing on connecting individuals rather than defined teams, ...
08.18.2022 Espresso \| Privacy and Scalability for Web3 A re-broadcast of our episode featuring Greylock investor Seth Rosenberg's interview with the co-founders of Espresso Systems, which provides configurable privacy and scalability tools for Web3. The company is operating at a critical time for privacy within Web3. Recently, the ...
08.16.2022 Nike CEO John Donahoe \| The Next Play Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman interviews Nike CEO John Donahoe as part of Greylock's Iconversations speaker series. In the interview, Donahoe discusses the iconic sports retailer's digital transformation in recent years; the lessons learned as a four-time CEO; and his ...
08.09.2022 Alchemy \| Bringing Web3 to the World Known as the "AWS of Web3", Alchemy's platform powers most of the top web3 applications around the world. The idea came to founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau following their own frustration when building a crypto analytics tool. Seeing that ...

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Inflection AI | The AI Friend Zone

Jerry Chen | The New Wave of Cloud Innovation

Jason Risch | Three Trends in VC-Backed Cloud

CNBC's Julia Boorstin | When Women Lead

Intelligent Money

The Post-ATT World

Sam Altman & Reid Hoffman | AI Field Notes

Reid Hoffman & Saam Motamedi | AI's Transformative Power

Greylock Welcomes Jacob Andreou

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha | Scaling with Intuition

Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

Introducing Possible: A New Podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

Adept CEO David Luan and Stanford's Percy Liang | Words into Action

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Decision-Making

Instacart's Fidji Simo | Building A Tech-Enabled Food System

OpenAI's Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era

Stripe's Patrick Collison | Micro Pessimism, Macro Optimism

Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT | AI in the Classroom

Greylock's Yuliya Mykhaylovska | How to Evaluate and Hire Early Career Candidates

Asheem Chandna | Leveraging the Downturn

Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT | The Human-AI Partnership

Figma's Nairi Hourdajian and Greylock's Elisa Schreiber | Startup Storytelling

Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT | Talking AI with AI

Tome's Henri Liriani | Hiring Startup Design Teams

Okta's Frederic Kerrest | Instructive Experiences

Reid Hoffman | Investing in Vices & Virtues

2022 in Review | The Year's Top Insights and Advice for Entrepreneurs

Zoox CEO Aicha Evans | Moving People Forward

Reid Hoffman | Bear Market Blitzscaling

Pinata | Getting Creative at Scale

Reid Hoffman | Crisis Management

Reid Hoffman | The Importance of Friendship

Snorkel AI | Jumpstarting Data-Centric AI

Inventa | Supplying Connections

Seth Rosenberg | Bringing DeFi Lending Mainstream

Rubrik's Bipul Sinha and Steve Stone | Understanding and Preventing Modern Cyber Attacks

CNBC's Julia Boorstin | When Women Lead

Rent the Runway's Jennifer Hyman | Designed by Data

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott | The Impact of AI on Cognitive Work

Aurora's Chris Urmson + Nuro's Jiajun Zhu | The Road Ahead for Autonomous Driving

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein | Catalyzing Entrepreneurship

AI's Human Factor | Stanford's Dr. Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI's Mira Murati on AI Safety

Words into Action | Progress from Large Language Models to AGI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era

Reid Hoffman and Saam Motamedi | Introducing the Intelligent Future

Greylock Talent Team | Building Your Talent Strategy: When, Why, and How to Bring in a Recruiter

Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford | How To Be A Founder

Espresso | Privacy and Scalability for Web3

Nike CEO John Donahoe | The Next Play

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