John Lilly
person on 5 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 22 times in 10 episodes since 2018
20VC 12 
How I Built This 7 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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20VC 12How I Built This 7Lenny's Podcast 1the a16z Podcast 1the Neon Show 1
2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Figma: Dylan Field
- What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
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2019 5 mentions in 1 episode
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6 statements about John Lilly, every show
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.”
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 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: 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 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.”
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…”