Greylock Blitzscaling
A course on Blitzscaling by Greylock Partners.
All Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Learn about Reid Hoffman interviewing Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn.
December 8, 2015
Blitzscaling 20: Final Recap and Student Discussion
Learn about the topics discussed in Greylocks Blitzscaling lectures.
December 9, 2015