John Lilly

John Lilly

San Francisco Bay Area
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I've spent the past 30 years working at and investing in technology companies that help…

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  • Now Playing: Blitzscaling

      Last year at Stanford University, Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Chris Yeh & I taught a class on…

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  • Orders of Magnitude

    Over the last few weeks I’ve been going back to some of the things we talked about during our Stanford CS183C…

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  • Greylock's Investment in Quip

    Like a drink of water in the desert. That’s what it felt like to me when I got to use Quip for the first time. By 2013,…

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  • Today in CS183C: Mozilla, Mostly

    It’s been a fun 2 weeks to start CS183C — along with Reid, Chris & Allen, we’ve been talking about the very early…

    6 Comments
  • How to participate in our Stanford class on Blitzscaling (CS183C)

    We’ve just finished the first 3 sessions of CS183C, and it shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but we’ll have lots of…

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  • Musing on Scale

    I’m doing a little work preparing for our Stanford class — I’m planning to talk next week a little bit about Mozilla…

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  • Our Investment in DWNLD

    It’s been just 7 years since Apple released the iPhone, but it seems like we’ve been doing everything with our phones…

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  • Next

    Today is a special day. It’s the day that the new class of frosh gets to Stanford. My family & I live a couple…

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  • Mobile in the 'Pre-Pagerank' Phase

    Benedict Evans has a tremendously good analysis of Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp up that’s highly worth reading.…

    13 Comments
  • Waterworld: One Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

    My partner Reid Hoffman has a fun metaphor he uses when he’s describing how companies think about their core…

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Experience

Education

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    Stanford University

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    Activities and Societies: - Study focus on User Experience; advisor was Terry Winograd - Ran undergraduate teaching assistant program (CS198) for two years, including managing fifty section leaders in premier undergraduate CS program

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    - Curriculum focused on combination of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Patents

  • Method and apparatus for transmitting documents over a network

    Issued US 7,496,836

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  • Providing security for external access to a protected computer network

    Issued US 7,043,753

    Other inventors
  • Providing security for external access to a protected computer network

    Issued US 7,552,471

    Other inventors
  • Providing security for external access to a protected computer network

    Issued US 6,845,452

    Other inventors
  • Object oriented editor for creating world wide web documents

    Issued US 6,938,205

    Other inventors
  • Method and apparatus for transmitting documents over a network

    Issued US 6,101,509

    Other inventors
  • Object oriented editor for creating world wide web documents

    Issued US 5,956,736

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