Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock. On 10 shows, 100 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Reid Hoffman was an early executive at PayPal and co-founded LinkedIn before becoming a partner at Greylock, where he participated in early investments in companies like Facebook and Airbnb. He is the founding host of the Masters of Scale podcast and author of books including Blitzscaling and The Start-up of You.
10shows
100appearances
672statements
104resolved
83supported
9contradicted
80%fully supported
343said about them ↓ Everything Reid Hoffman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hoffman: Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Palestine
“I gone and argued against a lot of kind of lefties who are like saying, look, the only, like, for example, they say, you know, Israel is committing genocide against Palestine. You're like, no, it's not. Genocide is something different. You could say there's ci…”
Hoffman: Trump abused state power for personal gain in first term
“Even in the first administration, there was the, there were some abuses of instruments of state for personal gain, for personal power. And that is, I think anti the spirit of anything in democracy, anti the spirit of anything in American.”
Hoffman: Buying Truth Social stock or crypto enables foreign political corruption
“What if foreign actors, Russia, others, were transferring economics to people with political power in order to influence the U.S. And what they're doing? You know, easy ways to do that are like, you know, buy true social stock. Easy ways to do that are buy fre…”
Hoffman: Medicare should eliminate public spending on end-of-life care
“And you go, well, look, there's a whole bunch of money that's spent on these last three to six months of life. Let's reduce the spending on that and say that is not a public, you know, a public expense. And let's increase, like, for example, preventative and o…”
ByteDance Will Delay TikTok Action Until After the US Presidential Election
“Likely, and I have no inside information here, I think ByteDance waits for the election, because they presume that Trump could get bought off by investors since, you know, he's a coin-operated person in his entire life, not just as in his presidency.”
Hoffman: Elon Musk's AI Pause Petition Was Intellectually Dishonest
“Well, Elon's in particular was signing this six month pause letter while trying to hire people and buy as much compute and get going as fast as possible. Everyone else slow down so I can catch up. That's not intellectually honest.”
Hoffman: Slashing university funding and barring foreign students would be catastrophic
“So, for example, you could do the current way of how you're attacking Harvard and say, I'm gonna withdraw funding, I'm going to disallow international students for coming, I'm gonna, like, do a whole bunch of other things which are gonna cause a lot of damage,…”
Hoffman: Most government tech procurement RFPs produce broken, quickly outdated software
“It's one of the reasons why, you know, most governments around the world have really broken RFP solutions for technology because they go, oh, I will specify the 150 requirements. And then when whoever provider Usually pretty incompetent people, you know, kind …”
Hoffman: OpenAI meant open API access, not open source models
“In terms of being open, there's lots of different parameters of open, and open AI has been, you know, working to have, like, open, you know, kind of you know, with, obviously, identity and registration for safety, but open AI, API access. It wasn't called open…”
Hoffman: Elon Musk approved OpenAI's closed-model strategy as co-CEO
“Elon was part of that decision for you know, as kind of co-CEO in terms of making that decision. And so that's how open AI has always operated.”
Hoffman: FTC Chair Lina Khan's tech M&A crackdown concentrates Big Tech power
“You know, she misunderstands, like, kind of the role of how to stop the aggregation of power in large tech companies, because she says, well, if she stops large tech companies from buying small startups, what that means is venture capitalists, like myself, and…”
Hoffman: Trade wars will cause a massive drop in U.S. prosperity
“The trade wars will create a massive drop in prosperity in the U.S.”
Hoffman: DOGE has zero chance of cutting $2T without defense cuts
“There is next to zero chance that the missions that they have declared will be successful because the only way to get two trillion out of the budget would be to massively reduce the deficit and reduce defense spending.”
Hoffman: China uses subsidies as mercantile warfare to destroy Western competition
“You're actually, in fact, trying to destroy our industry in the short term so that you can then raise prices later and capture it. That is mercantile warfare. Responding to mercantile warfare is completely fine.”
Hoffman: Prioritizing 'woke AI' is silly and misses AI's real stakes
“Now, the challenges would be is, what if he goes, no, no, the most important issue facing AI is woke AI. Because we have this calling card, which means a whole bunch of different kind of, You know, like, you know, these people are evil and terrible. That's sil…”
Hoffman: US should stop building aircraft carriers vulnerable to $2M hypersonic missiles
“We should not be building aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers themselves cost billions, The planes on them are more billions. They put, you know, thousands of American lives on them, and in the modern world, you have to, like, sure, an aircraft carrier is gre…”
Hoffman: U.S. Should Ban TikTok Based on Commercial Reciprocity
“The right way, I think, to think about this from an American or any other perspective is to say China bans Competition in China from Meta, Twitter, etc. And so the right way to say is like, look, if you're banning our companies, we should ban yours. Commercial…”
Hoffman: Elon Musk's greatest strength and weakness stem from blind conviction
“Elon has a conviction that he, what he believes is true is absolutely true even when all of the evidence is against his belief, right? And so that allows him to do, I can see that we can colonize Mars, and here we go. Right? And that creates, you know, SpaceX,…”
Hoffman: Distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of reach in media
“The importance of freedom of speech, there's a really interesting distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of reach, right? So, if you're standing at the local corner, and standing on a soapbox, and saying, the moon is made out of blue cheese, and the…”
Hoffman: Media platforms should attach expert determinations to false claims
“Look, if I could, through a democratic process, because I believe in democracies, I believe in collective governance, get our society to agree to say, hey, what we should do is identify some topics that panels of experts can yield To a truth determination on. …”
Hoffman: Blocking tech acquisitions entrenches monopolies by deterring startup funding
“If you want competition with those large companies from startups, Investors, say for example, I'm an investor who's gonna put a billion dollars into a company that might compete with one of the large tech companies. I'm only gonna put the billion dollars in if…”
Reid Hoffman: Twitter is substantially worse post-Elon Musk acquisition
“With deep regret, I would say substantially worse.”
The other half of the tape: Reid Hoffman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 301 times in 123 episodes across the shows. 42 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 50David Sacks 34Mark Pincus 22Jason Calacanis 21David Friedberg 19Michael Tracey 18Chamath Palihapitiya 11Max Levchin 9
Statements about Reid Hoffman, by other people (42)
Choi: Lateral career moves can trigger exponential career growth
“Sometimes you'll have a situation where you're taking on a lateral move, but if you take on that lateral move and you crush it, you could kind of take things exponentially higher than you would have if you had just been kind of slow and steady up and to the ri…”
Sze: Bonding with Reid Hoffman in China led to LinkedIn investment
“We sat at the back of the bus each time on every stop on this tour through China, and we just mind melded. It was great. We got along so well. We were fast friends, and that led to the investment in LinkedIn and me inviting him to come to Greylock”
Altman: We will see more investors remaining operating executives
“You know, you, you've figured out an approach to this I like for investors, which is continue to be very involved with operating one company, and I think that's a model that is very underexplored, and we'll see more of.”
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman provided Friendster's initial funding
“Reid Hoffman and I got excited about that. We both kind of at the same time discovered Friendster and put up the original money for Friendster, and both started our own networks, LinkedIn and Tribe.”
Nash: Reid Hoffman's handover to Jeff Weiner is the model CEO transition
“You know, Reid Hoffman, who I'm very close with is obviously the founder and has been the person guiding LinkedIn since the get-go, but the way that he brought Jeff Wiener on board and kind of empowered him to run that company I think is a model for how those …”
Hanson: Reid Hoffman stepping down as LinkedIn CEO was smart and selfless
“I did promise that I'd divert everybody to Founders Friday episode two for more on that but my serious answer is going to be Reid Hoffman and I know I mentioned him before with the Alliance, but I think in terms of a founder who, one of the things I really adm…”
Pincus and Hoffman invested in Friendster without expecting it to succeed
“I remember when we both wrote Checks for Friendster, it was not because we thought it had any chance. We just were like, this is an experiment that needs to happen, because this is important for the consumer internet.”
Tolia: Larry Page and Reid Hoffman attended early Round Zero meetups
“We then incorporated it as a nonprofit, we got some sponsors, and yes, Reid Hoffman, Larry Page, many of the other stars of today were just attendees at Round Zero.”
Reid Hoffman originally cloned his voice to narrate his 2023 AI audiobook
“The original use case for this was to make an audiobook, specifically Reed's twenty-twenty-three work called Impromptu, Amplifying Humanity Through AI.”
Reid Hoffman hired AI startup Respeecher in 2023 to clone his voice
“Last year, Reid hired the team at Respeacher to create a synthetic voice for himself.”
Lanng: Reid Hoffman funded any San Francisco startup surviving post-2008
“Like Reed Hoffman, he just walked around in San Francisco and looked for any startup that has survived 2008 and just gave them money.”
Reid Hoffman reframes binary choices with unexpected 'option orange' alternatives
“I would come to Reed and I'll say, Hey, there's option A and option B and help me think for those. And he'll give me option orange that I haven't even thought about before.”
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman bought the Six Degrees patent in 2003
“Recognizing the importance of social networking, in 2003, Mark teamed up with his friend, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, to purchase the fundamental six degrees patent, which broadly covers social networks, in order to keep it out of the hands of paten…”
Gil Penchina: Reid Hoffman is the poster child for paying it forward
“Guys like Reid Hoffman are sort of the poster child for pay it forward. Reid is always helping, you know, anytime you're in a meeting with him, he's taking notes on like the things he's going to do for you.”
Suleyman: DeepMind Established an Ethics Board Upon Its 2014 Google Acquisition
“Both when we were acquired by Google, we had an ethics and safety board, which of course you were on back in 2014, which is pretty incredible first for its time.”
Systrom: Founders naturally gravitate toward central roles like goalie or DJ
“When I did sports as a kid, I was the goalie. When I played baseball, I was the pitcher. Like I always wanted to be in the center of it and not controlling it, but I wanted to be in the center of it. And the DJ is kind of the same thing, right? So the early gl…”
Raz: Thiel's $500K Facebook investment turned into over $1B in eight years
“Well, Peter can probably thank Reed for helping him become a billionaire, because back in 2004, Reed introduced Peter to a young entrepreneur who just dropped out of Harvard. Peter decided to give that dropout 500,000 dollars in angel money and Of course, you …”
Hiring Screen Uses Reid Hoffman's 'Tour of Duty' Framework for Product
“I think it's a very refreshing take on things, and some of the principles that they talk about in that book, like the tour of duty concept of employment, those are some of the principles that we actually have underpinning hiring screens development as a produc…”
Every mention by year
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All-In 126
20VC 112
How I Built This 18
the a16z Podcast 16
the Knowledge Project 10
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 9
American Optimist 4
Big Technology 32 more shows
2026 55 mentions in 12 episodes 5 per episode
- Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
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How a high school dropout became the CEO of Autodesk (with Andrew Anagnost) - Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams
- Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 57 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- From Skeptic to Supporter: How This Billionaire Got ‘Red-Pilled’ by Trump
- Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 36 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 40 mentions in 16 episodes 3 per episode
- Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
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No Priors Ep. 16 | With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection - Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
- E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
- Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- #AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 24 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- 20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
- E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- #113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor
- #105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 13 mentions in 9 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
- #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- 20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- SPAC talk with Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg, David Sacks & Jason Calacanis | from Episode 7
- E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- 20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- 20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
- a16z Podcast | The Asshole Survival Guide
- a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 21 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen
- 20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- 20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- 20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Reid's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Partner, Greylockhost | 87 | 376 | 83% 62/75 | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 3 | 118 | 69% 11/16 | full record on 20VC → |
| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 | 33 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Big Technology → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 2 | 26 | — | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 | 25 | 100% 3/3 | full record on American Optimist → |
| a16zLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 | 23 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 | 22 | 50% 1/2 | full record on All-In → |
| NO PRIORSLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 +1 | 20 | 100% 1/1 | full record on No Priors → |
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 1 | 19 | 100% 1/1 | full record on How I Built This → |
| Y COMBINATORLEDGER | Partner, Greylock | 2 | 10 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |