Podcast
Technology-enabled Blitzscaling
Hosted by Greylock Partners · EN
The power of entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley comes from far more than just providing a fertile environment for startups. Starting up is just the beginning. Scaling up is how you change the world. The kind of scaling that built giants like Google, Facebook, and Alibaba is so different from traditional single-digit growth—not just quantitatively, but qualitatively as well—that it requires a whole new name: Blitzscaling, a relentless speed that overwhelms your competitors and the market. This podcast takes you inside the CS183C classroom at Stanford University where Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh explain the principles of blitzscaling and discuss them with a some of the most impressive technology entrepreneurs and company builders of our time.
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Overview of the Five Stages of Blitzscaling | Blitzscaling 01
Mar 2, 201601:13:02Tap to summarizeThis is session 1 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture lays out an overview of the course and provides a summary of the five stages of Blitzscaling.
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Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders | Blitzscaling 02
Mar 2, 201601:12:29Tap to summarizeThis is session 2 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features John Lilly interviewing Y Combinator President Sam Altman.
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Michael Dearing on Capitalism, Creativity, and Creative Destruction | Blitzscaling 03
Mar 2, 201601:19:50Tap to summarizeThis is session 3 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by venture capitalist Michael Dearing, the Founder of Harrison Metal, who is then interviewed by Reid Hoffman.
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Ann Miura-Ko on FLOODGATE's Thunder Lizard Theory and Achieving Product Market Fit | Blitzscaling 04
Mar 2, 201601:12:59Tap to summarizeThis is session 4 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by venture capitalist Ann Mira-Ko of FLOODGATE, who is later interviewed by John Lilly.
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John Lilly on Leveraging Community to Scale Mozilla | Blitzscaling 05
Mar 2, 201601:14:50Tap to summarizeThis is session 5 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture recaps the Family stage and introduces the Tribal stage. Allen Blue talks about the early days of LinkedIn and John Lilly talks about the early days of Mozilla.
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Jennifer Pahlka on Founding Code For America and Starting the US Digital Service | Blitzscaling 06
Mar 2, 201601:02:45Tap to summarizeThis is session 6 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features John Lilly interviewing Jennifer Pahlka, the Founder and Executive Director of Code for America, and Co-founder of the United States Digital Service.
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Mariam Naficy on Lessons From The Dot Com Days and Knowing When To Blitzscale | Blitzscaling 07
Mar 2, 201601:13:10Tap to summarizeThis is session 7 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features Reid Hoffman interviewing Mariam Naficy, the Founder and CEO of Minted.com, and the Founder and Co-CEO of Eve.com.
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Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google | Blitzscaling 08
Mar 2, 201601:23:05Tap to summarizeThis is session 8 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features Reid Hoffman interviewing Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google).
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Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue on Why and How They Scaled LinkedIn | Blitzscaling 09
Mar 2, 201601:20:43Tap to summarizeThis is session 9 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This lecture recaps the previous three sessions and explains how the Village stage is the inflection point for blitzscaling. Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue then move into the when, why, and how of scaling LinkedIn.
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Selina Tobaccowala on Building a Global Business at SurveyMonkey | Blitzscaling 10
Mar 2, 201601:22:18Tap to summarizeThis is session 10 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features Reid Hoffman interviewing Selina Tabaccowala, the former President and CTO of Survey Monkey and Co-Founder of Evite. This podcast series has been produced by Greylock Partners.
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