Greylock

“Having an idea and going a gray lock to now having 400 customers in four years was not possible. You know, even 10 years ago without companies like AWS and software and so on.”

“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”

“If somebody says they make it easier for Companies to deal with GDPR and CCPA and be compliant, understand what data they have. Like, I'm listening. I think we would actually welcome more of that in the portfolio.”

“Greylock is a fifty-plus-year-old venture firm. We have less than 10 investors, an entire team of less than 40, actually based entirely in the Bay Area”

“We have billion dollar fund, and we largely invest in early stage companies and then put more and more capital into them over time as they progress.”

“Unlike many of our you know, colleagues in the venture ecosystem, we have not raised, An extra ten billion dollars and, like, spread it into different funds. We have one fund.”

“I think Matt can probably summarize our, like, investing thesis around security very simply in, like, two things. It's basically like hybrid cloud and AI, right?”

“I definitely think that there are companies in the portfolio that think very carefully about what it will mean to have adversaries for their models, right?”

“I think five of the six companies that I am involved with actively today would say, like, machine learning is a core tenet of, like, what makes your product work.”

“Shopify's an extraordinary example of this, but you can have companies that enable entirely new customer bases to do new things, and they've figured out, like, web distribution, Basically, to make a different price point work for different customers”

“Half my personal portfolio is not in the Bay Area entirely”

“You also just announced just last month a 8.5 million dollar seed round. Led by our friends at Greylock.”