John Lilly

6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 23, 2017 by John Lilly · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 23, 2017 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lilly: Virtual reality and augmented reality will not merge over time
“Oh, yeah, I don't think so. I think a lot of people think they will. Good odds that I'm wrong, but I really think they're just different use cases. I think that the idea that you're putting on a headset to get away from the world is quite different than AR, wh…”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 18:31 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Jan 23, 2017
Assertion Supported
Lilly: Mozilla had 12 employees and 5M users when he joined
“I went to Mozilla, and it was maybe 12, 12 employees, and I, you know, maybe five million users, and I worked on that for a long time, and built that up to be, you know, helped build that up to be quite a lot larger”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 3:26 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Jan 23, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
John Lilly: Low capital requirements create permanent seed investing ecosystem
“Like, I think what I would say is that we've created a sort of a permanent seed and angel investing environment, and because companies are getting created more and more with, like, less capital, with low capital requirements to get started I think we'll contin…”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 12:59 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Jan 23, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
John Lilly consistently makes exactly two venture investments per year
“I did two investments this year, I had two investments last year, I had two the year before, so I've been pretty consistent.”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 13:23 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Jan 23, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
John Lilly disagrees with Fred Wilson's consumer tech downturn thesis
“I mean, I don't know exactly what Fred's been talking about consumer downturn, but I don't, I think there's plenty of space. So, I think most people didn't think there was space for Snapchat a couple years ago. Now, now people do. You used to look at Musical.l…”
John Lilly Jan 23, 2017 ▶ 11:38 20VC: Greylock's John Lilly on How Greylock Continues To Invest In The Next Big Markets, The Importance Of Building Tribes & Why There will Be Another Boom In Mobile
Apr 19, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Benchmark's John Lilly rejected Figma's seed round before leading Series A
“I had met John Lilly, the seed, and he turned us down, actually. But he said, hey, look, like, if you want to keep talking, I'm down.”
Dylan Field Apr 19, 2019 ▶ 14:53 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
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