John Lilly

This & that. But I don't come here too much these days...

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@htaneja @generalcatalyst 480!! Wow what a journey so far.

[Greylock Partners @GreylockVC]

One of the biggest bets startup employees make is on the founder. That trust may not be tested until years later, when the company exits.

A startup can sell for billions, and the people who helped build it can walk away with vastly different outcomes.

During M&A negotiations, investors bought in at different prices and have different return expectations.

The buyer has its own priorities. Employees don’t have a seat at the negotiating table, even when the deal could be a life-changing event for them. So much can come down to whether the founder has their back when they're not in the room.

In the latest Greylock Originals, @chronosphereio co-founder Martin Mao (@martin_c_mao )and Greylock Partner @jerrychen share what happened behind the scenes of Palo Alto Networks' $3.35B acquisition of the company.

00:00 The decision behind the headline
01:01 Why sell a fast growing company?
02:15 What makes an offer worth accepting?
03:36 "You only get one chance to sell"
05:18 A first-time founder vs. a Fortune 500 CEO
07:11 Who speaks for the employees?

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@kimmaicutler He stands for nothing

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

Touring factories & labs is one of my favorite parts of this job. I could spend all day asking questions.
This time we brought cameras.

Field Trips starts with @RhodaAI, @ArborEnergyCo & @harbingermotors:

https://t.co/h1fNcxv9FM

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

Design is not all the same.

[Figma @figma]

https://t.co/WXnarwHcT8

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@hnshah @ProductHunt @figma I like it a lot - great work. Still getting it into my workflow but love it so far

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@adamnash @Tesla Adam. No.

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@mgsiegler The delivery date was moving really quick during checkout. (And method - in store pickup literally disappeared while I was checking out.) Supply has to be just really tight.

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@stlhood Using it daily, love it, lots of thoughts but need to pull them together.

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

Exciting role @DaffyGiving 👀

We're looking for a founding general manager / GTM leader for our innovative Daffy for Work platform.

If you have experience w/ corp benefits, knowledgeable abt private stock & are inspired by our mission, we should talk.

https://t.co/TYGysqhJSi

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@MikeIsaac Amazing run Mike. Excited for your new adventure :)

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@harper @BuildWithFlux hey @MatthiasWagner -- this is good & important feedback from someone who'd be very likely to use & love & evangelize flux. (harper's also a friend)

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@stlhood i've been running a (now very modified) nanoclaw for awhile; plus an unholy mix of local microservers over the tailnet for things like health & nutrition, etc and some automated cloudflare stuff for public facing. having fun exploring the model you've got here, will report back!

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@stlhood this makes total sense to me, thank you. it's really interesting to be able to see these various artifacts quickly; one of the things i'm playing with lately is ios widgets; i think i just need to make a native frame to pour them into.

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@stlhood any plans to have swift/ios (for me over a tailnet)?

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@stlhood this is killer work. just simplified about 10 things in my home agent architecture. 👌👊

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@adamnash i feel like we had a couple of years go by this week.

[John Lilly @johnolilly]

@neil_jhaveri Any sense & timeline of making it work for the Duo? Seems like it’ll be awesome on that form factor

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

It took @DaffyGiving a little more than a year to reach $20M in charitable assets.

Wow, how fast we've grown since then. 🚀

It has now been 5 years since we launched, and Daffy now has more than $2 billion in charitable assets. 🤯

100x growth in less than 4 years. 💸