John Lilly (entrepreneur and venture capitalist)

John Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher, and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998 (which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a venture partner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a lecturer in management in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is a co-inventor on seven US patents.

Lilly was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011 to 2019 and remains a venture partner. He led investments in Dropbox, Tumblr, (acquired by Yahoo) and in Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012). During his time with Greylock, he has participated in twenty-six investments.

Lilly has made ten independent investments between 2021 and February 2022 in Aside, HUBUC, Marley Medical, Felt, Rootly, Iron Fish, Census, Descript, Gowalla, and CoScreen, where he made his first exit.

John O. Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher, and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998 (which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a venture partner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a lecturer in management in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is a co-inventor on seven US patents.

John O. Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher, and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998, (which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a Ventureventure Partnerpartner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a Lecturerlecturer in Managementmanagement in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is a co-inventor on 7seven US patents.

In 1998, Lilly co-founded Reactivity, which started as a technology incubator specializing in building first products and teams for hi-tech companies. For the first three years, Lilly served as CEO, and on the board of directors. He was instrumental in the spinout of two incubated companies: Zaplet Inc. (backed by KPCB) and CenterRun Inc. (backed by Sequoia Capital and acquired by Sun Microsystems). He also led Reactivity's Series A fundraise for $23M from Accel, Austin Ventures and Maveron.

In 2001, Lilly transitioned from CEO to CTO and VP of Productsproducts, where he drove product strategy and technical sales, created the company's services organization, and wrote the majority of the company's white papers and technical collateral. He also played a major role in the next fundraising rounds of $6 million and $10 million.

Lilly was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011 to 2019 and remains a Ventureventure Partnerpartner. He led investmentinvestments in Dropbox, Tumblr, (acquired by Yahoo) and in Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012). During his time with Greylock, he has participated in 26twenty-six investments.

Lilly has made ten independent investments between 2021 and February 2022 in Aside, HUBUC, Marley Medical, Felt, Rootly, Iron Fish, Census, Descript, Gowalla, and CoScreen, where he made his first exit.

Lilly serves on multiple boards, including Code for America, as Chair, and as member of Figma, VotingWorks, Nuro, Caffeine, Clockwise,Daffy and Duolingo. Past board service includes Mozilla, TripIt, Open Source Applications Foundation, CenterRun and the Sunnyvale Public Library.

On March 21, 2007, Reactivity was acquired by Cisco Systemssfor approximately $135 million.

John O. Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007, served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a Venture Partner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a Lecturer in Management in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is a co-inventor on 7 US patents.

John O. Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007, served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a Venture Partner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a Lecturer in Management in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is ana inventorco-inventor on 7 US patents.

John O. Lilly is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, teacher and computer scientist. Lilly co-founded Reactivity in 1998, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007, served as CEO of Mozilla from 2008-2010, and was a partner in the venture capital firm Greylock from 2011-2019. He remains a Venture Partner with Greylock and is an independent investor as well. Lilly teaches at Stanford University as a Lecturer in Management in the Stanford Graduate School of Businessand is aan co-inventorinventor on 7 US patents.

Lilly has made ten independent investments between 2021 and February 2022 in AsideAside, HUBUC, Marley MedicalMarley Medical, FeltFelt, Rootly, Iron FishIron Fish, CensusCensus, Descript, Gowalla and CoScreen, where he made his first exit.