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Growth Panel with Gustaf Alströmer and Ed Baker, moderated by Josh Elman | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
In this panel, Greylock's Josh Elman talks with Y Combinator Partner and former Airbnb Product Lead for Growth Gustaf Alströmer and former Uber Head of Product and VP of Growth Ed Baker about establishing a north star metric, growing in local markets, and how to measure the things that can't be measured. This panel was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, an event focused on scaling companies co-hos...

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The Job of a CFO at a Scaling Company with Sarah Friar and Jason Child | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
Once a company reaches a certain scale, one of their most important hires will be a Chief Financial Officer. In this panel, YC Continuity's Anu Hariharan chats with Square CFO Sarah Friar and Opendoor CFO Jason Child about how to vet and hire a CFO, and when the right time is for a company to go public. This panel was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, an event focused on scaling companies co-host...

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Building Your Board with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
As your company scales, your Board of Directors will scale along with it. In this talk, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman shares personal anecdotes about his evolving relationship with his board and teaches leaders how to build pipeline and interview for board positions. This talk was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, an event focused on scaling companies co-hosted by Greylock Partners and YC Continuity.

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Hiring Executives with Greylock Talent Partner Jeff Markowitz | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
Bringing on world class leadership is incredibly valuable for a scaling company, but executive hiring can be a long and delicate process. In this talk, Greylock Talent Parter Jeff Markowitz breaks down five steps of hiring executives, starting from planning all the way to making the final offer. This talk was recorded at The Scaleup Offsite, an event focused on scaling companies co-hosted by Gre...

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Scaling Product with Airbnb's Joe Gebbia and Reid Hoffman | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb has changed the way people travel and stay in new places around the world. In this fireside, Greylock's Reid Hoffman sits down with Airbnb co-founder and Chief Product Officer Joe Gebbia to talk about doing things that don't scale, designing for trust, and creating a company culture that inspires their team and community. This fireside was recorded at The Scale...

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Scaling Culture with Jason Kilar | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
In the early days of a startup, founders can maintain control of company culture. But as the company grows, how can they ensure the DNA and values of the early team scale with it? Jason Kilar has worked at a number of iconic companies, including Disney and Amazon, before joining Hulu as the CEO and later founding Vessel. In this talk, he shares mechanisms some of these companies used to scale thei...

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From Startup to Scaleup with Reid Hoffman and Sam Altman | The Scaleup Offsite 2017
Silicon Valley is home to many of the fastest growing and most well known startups in the world. In this fireside, Reid Hoffman from Greylock Partners and Sam Altman from Y Combinator share their perspectives on how Silicon Valley companies effectively blitzscale, how to think about hiring when a startup is growing quickly, and why culture is so connected to the success of a company. This firesi...

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Dave Morin Fireside with Josh Elman | #ProductSF 2016
Greylock's Josh Elman chats with Slow Ventures founder and partner Dave Morin about social networks, his experience building the Facebook platform, and learnings from his startup Path. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative products...

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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann Fireside with Sarah Tavel | #ProductSF 2016
At #ProductSF, Greylock's Sarah Tavel is joined by Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann to talk about the evolution of his roles as both CEO and product leader at a high growth company. Ben shares how thinks about distribution, hiring and scaling teams, and what makes a strong product manager.
Reid Hoffman Fireside with Josh Elman | #ProductSF 2016
Partner at Greylock and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman offers a candid perspective on lessons learned from getting LinkedIn going and then scaling it beyond. He explains why he had conviction for social networks in the early 2000s and gives the scoop on his first (not as successful) startup Socialnet. He explains how he and his team navigated their financing strategy, and what he did to build hi...
dScout CEO Michael Winnick on Modern Research and How We Live Now | #ProductSF 2016
dScout CEO Michael Winnick shares his eye opening research on how people interact with mobile technology. According to him, an average user touches their phone 2.5K times a day over 90 sessions, while a heavy user can reach over 4.6K touches a day in 300+ sessions. Another interesting point: apps owned by Facebook and Alphabet account for 43% of all touches. A lot of interesting data and insight i...
Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community | #ProductSF 2016
Musical.ly co-founder and co-CEO Alex Zhu takes us through his journey coming from an enterprise software background to starting an education startup and then pivoting into Musical.ly. He talks about the distribution hacks they used to instrument viral growth and how they think about fostering their user community. He also updates us on what's going on in the technology landscape in China. #Prod...
#ProductSF 2016 Opening from Josh Elman
Josh Elman of Greylock Partners welcomes the audience to #ProductSF 2016. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about the challenges of building new, innovative products that change lives and create habits.
Ellie Powers on Secrets Every PM Should Know About Android and Google Play | #ProductSF2016
Google Group Product Manager Ellie Powers tells us some of the “secrets” every product manager should know about Android and Google Play. Many PMs and developers don't know that Google offers a lot of design and testing support. Ellie gives us a good breakdown on how we can test and ship high quality Android apps. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference b...
Nextdoor Co-Founder Sarah Leary on The Journey of the Pivot | #ProductSF 2016
Nextdoor Co-Founder and VP of Marketing & Operations Sarah Leary talks about the journey of pivoting from FanBase to Nextdoor. She shares both the emotions and learnings their team took away from the pivot, and how they eventually identified the burning need for a social network for neighborhoods. Sarah highlights the importance of creating a product that is a “need to have” versus a “nice to have...
Nir Eyal on Building Habit-Forming Tech | #ProductSF 2016
Nir Eyal, the author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” dives into the psychology behind building technology that creates consumer habits. He summarizes his four-step Hook canvas (Trigger, Action, Reward, Investment) and reminds us that it's not the best product that wins—the winner will be the product that forms the monopoly of the mind. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted...
James Currier on Unlearning What You Have Learned | #ProductSF
Growth expert and managing partner at NFX Guild James Currier teaches us, in the words of the wise master Yoda, to unlearn what we have learned about scaling a business. He provides eight counter-intuitive examples for ways to think about growing and developing an early product. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of found...
Scott Erickson on Microsoft HoloLens | #ProductSF 2016
Scott Erickson takes us behind the scenes to the vision and design thinking that went into building Microsoft HoloLens. He demos the many applications that their untethered “mixed reality” technology can have for different industries. #ProductSF is a product-centric event hosted by Greylock Partners. The conference brings together a community of founders, PMs, and product leaders to talk about t...

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Saving People Money
Sarah Tavel of Greylock Partners analyzes the unique financial pain points that young Americans are facing and explains why fintech is ripe for disruption.