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The State of Gaming with Discord CEO Jason Citron | Greymatter Nov 02, 2016

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The global video game industry is thriving. According to PwC, gaming is expected to grow from $71.3 billion in 2015 to $90.1 billion by 2020. Jason Citron, the CEO and founder of Discord, understands this space very well. He started gaming on the NES when he was five, learned how to program games in high school, founded and sold a social platform for mobile games, and is now building a messaging platform for gamers. Greylock investment partner Josh Elman caught up with Jason to talk about his entrepreneurial journey, the gaming industry, and what's in store for Discord.

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Biz Stone on “Unpivoting” and the Future of Search | Greymatter Sep 22, 2016

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Greylock's Josh Elman sits down with Jelly Co-Founder & CEO Biz Stone to discuss what he learned in the process of pivoting away from — and back to — his original idea of Jelly, how the product works, and what the future of search might look like. Biz also demos a voice-based version of Jelly on the Amazon Echo that is still in development.

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The Art of Interviewing 10x Engineers with Dan Portillo and Wade Chambers | Greymatter Aug 17, 2016

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Following their podcast on managing technical teams, Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo and Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers pair up for another podcast on recruiting and interviewing engineers. Wade outlines the processes he’s developed through years of management and building out teams at Yahoo, Proofpoint, TellApart and now Twitter.

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Increasing Your Team's Capacity To Win with Dan Portillo and Wade Chambers | Greymatter Jul 26, 2016

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Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sits down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to discuss the art and science of managing technical teams. Wade shares personal insight into his development as a leader, and shares frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing for a high functioning organization.

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Fireside with Mike Clayville of Amazon Web Services | Greyscale Jun 18, 2016

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In this fireside chat from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock enterprise investor Jerry Chen sits down with Amazon Web Services Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales Mike Clayville to talk about sales strategy, how Mike spots industry trends, and AWS. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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Unit of Value with Jerry Chen | Greyscale Jun 18, 2016

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Crafting and executing a go-to-market strategy is one of the biggest challenges for an early stage startup. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock enterprise investor Jerry Chen shares his Unit of Value framework for taking a product to market. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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Debugging Recruiting with Dan Portillo | Greyscale Jun 18, 2016

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Recruiting great people is a priority for any company at each stage of growth. Especially in the early stages, hiring your initial team is core to instilling the right company culture. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo outlines what a strong recruiting process should look like - from sourcing to conversion. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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How to Make an Executive Hire with Jeff Markowitz | Greyscale Jun 18, 2016

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Hiring a critical executive is a long, delicate process that needs to be navigated with thoughtful planning. In this talk from Greyscale, an event hosted by Greylock Partners, Greylock Talent Partner Jeff Markowitz shares the best practices for managing the executive hiring process. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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Reid Hoffman and John Lilly on Blitzscaling | Greyscale Jun 18, 2016

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As an entrepreneur, starting up is just the beginning but scaling up is how you change the world. This Greymatter episode is a fireside chat that took place at Greyscale, an event for tech founders hosted by Greylock Partners. Chris Yeh, the co-author of The Alliance, sits down with Reid Hoffman and John Lilly to discuss how companies go from startup to scaleup. Reid, John, and Chris taught a course at Stanford centered on this theme of hyper-growth called “Technology-enabled Blitzscaling,” and here they discuss some of the key themes from the class. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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The State of Enterprise Software by Jerry Chen | Greyscale Jun 16, 2016

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Launching a startup isn't easy. At each stage of scaling - from founding to product-market fit, from product-market fit to hyper growth, and from hyper growth to maturity - entrepreneurs face unique challenges. Greylock Partners hosted an event, called Greyscale, focused on these challenges at each stage. In the opening keynote, Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners discusses the state of enterprise software after the first quarter of 2016. He summarizes the private and public markets, M&A activity, and explains how this climate affects the startup environment. For more podcasts, visit news.greylock.com.

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