John Lilly
Venture Partner
John has backed entrepreneurs that improve the way we work, collaborate and connect with each other.
John is a venture partner at Greylock. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Crew, Figma, Latent Space, Caffeine, Clockwise, Code for America, and Nuro. He led Greylock’s investment in Dropbox (Nasdaq:DBX), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook in 2017), Quip (acquired by Salesforce in 2016), Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo in 2013), Verst (acquired by Dropbox in 2017) and Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012). John previously served on the Boards of Directors of TripIt (acquired by Concur in 2011), CenterRun (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003), and Reactivity (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007).
Prior to Greylock, John was CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, the open source Web browser used by more than 450 million people. He also co-founded Reactivity, an enterprise security infrastructure company acquired by Cisco in 2007, where he served as founding CEO and later CTO. Earlier in his career, John held positions on the executive team at Trilogy Software and as a Senior Scientist in Apple’s research labs.
John holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering and an MS in Computer Science with a focus on Human Computer Interaction, both from Stanford University. He is currently a Lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and was previously a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford’s d.school, and an advisor to both the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and StartX, Stanford’s start up accelerator.
He is a co-inventor on seven United States patents.
Investments
Previous Investments
Ozlo
Acquired by Facebook in 2017
Verst
Acquired by Dropbox in 2017
Clearslide
Acquired by Corel 2017
Sparks
Acquired by Dropbox in 2016
Citrus Lane
Acquired by Care.com in 2014
MessageMe
Acquired by Yahoo! in 2014
Tumblr
Acquired by Yahoo! in 2013
A social broadcasting platform for gaming, entertainment, and the creative arts.
Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature entertainment, gaming, and sports content from partners like Offset, JuJu Smith-Schuster, FOX Sports, Disney ESPN, DreamHack, Riot Games, and many more. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech, and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Ben Keighran, CEO & Co-Founder
HQ
Redwood City, CA | USA
Time management for teams.
http://getclockwise.comClockwise optimizes teams’ calendars to create more time in everyone’s day. It helps organizations achieve ambitious goals by creating time for important work and preventing employee burnout. The company’s mission is to help people make time for what matters, and over 15,000 organizations run on Clockwise, including Atlassian, Uber, Asana, and Reddit.
DOMAIN
SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Matt Martin, CEO & Co-Founder
Gary Lerhaupt, Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
DOMAIN
SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
John Lilly
Your life's work wherever.
Dropbox is building the world’s first smart workspace. We believe there’s a more enlightened way to work. Dropbox helps people be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams.
DOMAIN
SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Public
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Drew Houston, CEO & Co-Founder
Arash Ferdowsi, CTO & Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together.
Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Born on the Web, Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster.
On a mission to make design accessible to all, Figma is helping companies like Microsoft, Google, and Slack redesign how they design. Whether you’re trying to consolidate tools, get more eyes on your work, or collaborate across time zones, Figma boosts creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page.
DOMAIN
SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Reid Hoffman, John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Dylan Field, CEO & Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
Fast beautiful photo sharing.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Kevin Systrom, CEO & Co-Founder
Mike Krieger, Co-Founder
HQ
Menlo Park, CA | USA
Building the first fully AI-rendered 3D engine.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
David Kossnick, Co-Founder
Ian Thompson, Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
Delivering the future of local commerce, autonomously.
Nuro is a robotics company transforming local commerce through driverless delivery. The company develops and operates a fleet of self-driving vehicles that deliver local goods of all kinds, from dinner to dry cleaning. Nuro’s service helps merchants deliver goods to customers quickly, affordably, and safely. Led by world-renowned experts in robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and product design, the company began making driverless deliveries to the public in 2018. Nuro shares partnerships with leading brands such as Walmart, Domino’s and Kroger.
DOMAIN
AI
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Jiajun Zhu, CEO & Co-Founder
Dave Ferguson, President & Co-Founder
HQ
Mountain View, CA | USA
The modern productivity suite.
DOMAIN
SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Bret Taylor, CEO & Co-Founder
Kevin Gibbs, Head of Engineering & Co-Founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
