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Greylock Blitzscaling

A course on Blitzscaling by Greylock Partners.

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Blitzscaling 01: Overview of the Five Stages of Blitzscaling thumbnail

Blitzscaling 01: Overview of the Five Stages of Blitzscaling

Learn about the five stages of Blitzscaling.

September 28, 2015

Blitzscaling 02: Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders thumbnail

Blitzscaling 02: Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders

Learn about Sam Altman discussing Y Combinator and the qualities of top founders.

September 30, 2015

Blitzscaling 03: Michael Dearing on Capitalism, Creativity, and Creative Destruction thumbnail

Blitzscaling 03: Michael Dearing on Capitalism, Creativity, and Creative Destruction

Learn about venture capitalist Michael Dearing's insights and interview with Reid Hoffman in session 3 of Stanford's Technology-enabled Blitzscaling class.

October 8, 2015

Blitzscaling 04: Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit thumbnail

Blitzscaling 04: Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit

Learn about venture capitalist Ann Mira-Ko's insights and interview with John Lilly in session 4 of Stanford's Technology-enabled Blitzscaling class.

October 9, 2015

Blitzscaling 05: John Lilly on Leveraging Community to Scale Mozilla thumbnail

Blitzscaling 05: John Lilly on Leveraging Community to Scale Mozilla

Learn about the shift to the Tribal stage, with insights from LinkedIn's Allen Blue and Mozilla's John Lilly, in session 5 of Stanford's Technology-enabled Blitzscaling class.

October 14, 2015

Blitzscaling 06: Jennifer Pahlka on Founding Code For America and Starting the US Digital Service thumbnail

Blitzscaling 06: Jennifer Pahlka on Founding Code For America and Starting the US Digital Service

Learn about technology-enabled blitzscaling from Jennifer Pahlka, Founder of Code for America, in this Stanford University class session with John Lilly.

October 15, 2015

Blitzscaling 07: Mariam Naficy on Lessons From The Dot Com Days and Knowing When To Blitzscale thumbnail

Blitzscaling 07: Mariam Naficy on Lessons From The Dot Com Days and Knowing When To Blitzscale

Learn about Reid Hoffman interviewing Mariam Naficy, the Founder and CEO of Minted.com, and the Founder and Co-CEO of Eve.com.

October 26, 2015

Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google thumbnail

Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google

Learn about Reid Hoffman interviewing Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google).

October 23, 2015

Blitzscaling 09: Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue on Why and How They Scaled LinkedIn thumbnail

Blitzscaling 09: Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue on Why and How They Scaled LinkedIn

Learn how the Village stage is the inflection point for blitzscaling. Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue move into the when, why, and how of scaling LinkedIn.

October 26, 2015

Blitzscaling 10: Selina Tobaccowala on Building a Global Business at SurveyMonkey thumbnail

Blitzscaling 10: Selina Tobaccowala on Building a Global Business at SurveyMonkey

Learn about Reid Hoffman interviewing Selina Tabaccowala, the former President and CTO of Survey Monkey and Co-Founder of Evite.

October 29, 2015

Blitzscaling 11: Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO thumbnail

Blitzscaling 11: Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO

Learn about John Lilly interviewing Patrick Collison, the Co-Founder of Stripe.

November 4, 2015

Blitzscaling 12: Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization thumbnail

Blitzscaling 12: Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization

Learn about Nirav Tolia, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Epinions, who is interviewed by John Lilly.

November 4, 2015

Blitzscaling 13: Shishir Mehrotra on Scaling YouTube and The 10 Things That Matter thumbnail

Blitzscaling 13: Shishir Mehrotra on Scaling YouTube and The 10 Things That Matter

Learn about Shishir Mehrotra, who helped guide YouTube through hypergrowth after its acquisition by Google.

November 10, 2015

Blitzscaling 14: Elizabeth Holmes on Managing Product Strategy, Regulation, and the Media thumbnail

Blitzscaling 14: Elizabeth Holmes on Managing Product Strategy, Regulation, and the Media

Learn about the visible secret of Silicon Valley's success: entrepreneurs, venture capital, technical universities, existing technology companies — which all lead to launching great startups and the creation of massive new industries.

November 15, 2015

Blitzscaling 15: Diane Greene on Scaling Products and Culture At VMware thumbnail

Blitzscaling 15: Diane Greene on Scaling Products and Culture At VMware

Learn about Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners interviewing Diane Greene, the Founder and former CEO of VMware and now SVP of Google’s cloud businesses.

November 23, 2015

Blitzscaling 16: Reed Hastings on Building a Streaming Empire thumbnail

Blitzscaling 16: Reed Hastings on Building a Streaming Empire

Learn about Reed Hoffman interviewing Reed Hastings, the Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix.

November 23, 2015

Blitzscaling 17: Marissa Mayer on Scaling Google and Yahoo thumbnail

Blitzscaling 17: Marissa Mayer on Scaling Google and Yahoo

Learn about Chris Yeh interviewing Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo.

November 30, 2015

Blitzscaling 18: Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale thumbnail

Blitzscaling 18: Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale

Learn about Reed Hoffman interviewing Brian Chesky, the Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb.

November 30, 2015

Blitzscaling 19: Jeff Weiner on Establishing a Plan and Culture for Scaling thumbnail

Blitzscaling 19: Jeff Weiner on Establishing a Plan and Culture for Scaling

Learn about Reid Hoffman interviewing Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn.

December 8, 2015

Blitzscaling 20: Final Recap and Student Discussion thumbnail

Blitzscaling 20: Final Recap and Student Discussion

Learn about the topics discussed in Greylocks Blitzscaling lectures.

December 9, 2015