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American venture capitalist
John Lilly
Occupation(s) Board Chair,
Code for America
[1]
[2]
Lecturer in Management, Stanford University
[3] Known for Mozilla Corp. CEO (2008–2010)
Venture capitalism
John Lilly is a
venture capitalist
[4] and former CEO of Mozilla. He currently serves on the
board of directors of the
Open Source Applications Foundation and
Code for America . He earned his
B.S. in computer systems engineering and
M.S. in
computer science from
Stanford University .
[3]
Career
Reactivity
Lilly co-founded
[5] and served the
CTO for Reactivity,
[6] a start-up focused on consulting on technically difficult websites and incubating new companies.
[6] Cisco Systems bought Reactivity in 2007 for $135 million.
[7]
Mozilla
Lilly was the
chief executive officer of the
Mozilla Corporation from 2008 to 2010.
[8] The corporation, a subsidiary of the
Mozilla Foundation , coordinates development of
open-source
Mozilla
Internet applications, including the
Firefox
web browser . Lilly, previously Mozilla's
Chief Operating Officer , succeeded
Mitchell Baker as CEO in January 2008.
[9]
In May 2010, Lilly announced he would step down as CEO.
[9] Lilly was succeeded by
Gary Kovacs on November 8, 2010.
[10] Lilly left Mozilla's board of directors in March 2014, reportedly over the appointment of
Brendan Eich as CEO.
[11]
Venture capital
Lilly joined the venture capital firm
Greylock Partners as a partner in 2011. His investments include
Instagram ,
[12]
Dropbox ,
[12]
Tumblr ,
[12]
Quip ,
[13] and
MessageMe .
[14] Lilly left the firm in January 2019 to dedicate himself more to activism, explaining "it’s crystal clear that 2019 & 2020 are crucially important years — certainly the most important time in a generation, but maybe much longer than that."
[15]
References
^ Fried, Ina.
"Code for America names new CEO" . Axios . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ America, Code for.
"Board members" . Code for America . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^
a
b
"John O. Lilly" . Stanford Graduate School of Business . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Rosoff, Matt.
"A top investor nails why Microsoft is getting more respect in Silicon Valley these days" . Business Insider . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Sutton, Robert I. (2002).
Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation . Simon and Schuster. p. 87.
ISBN
978-0-7432-1212-0 . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^
a
b Sutton, Robert I. (2010).
Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst . Grand Central Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-446-55847-1 .
^ Nguyen, Tuan (February 21, 2007).
"Cisco Buys Reactivity Inc. for $135 Million" . Archived from
the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
^ Oinas-Kukkonen, H. (2013).
Humanizing the Web: Change and Social Innovation . Springer. p. 203.
ISBN
978-1-137-30570-1 . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^
a
b Lawson, Stephen (11 May 2010).
"Mozilla CEO John Lilly plans to step down" . Computerworld . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Dignan, Larry.
"Mozilla names Gary Kovacs as chief exec" . ZDNet . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Lowensohn, Josh (28 March 2014).
"Half of Mozilla's board reportedly resign over new CEO choice" . The Verge . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^
a
b
c Carr, Austin (4 June 2012).
"Investment Hunting With Greylock Partner, Instagram Backer John Lilly" . Fast Company . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Mehta, Stephanie (22 April 2016).
"A Top Silicon Valley V.C. Explains Why Slack Drives Him Crazy" . Vanity Fair . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Ludwig, Sean (17 May 2013).
"MessageMe nabs $10M from Greylock, Google, & others to take on WhatsApp" . VentureBeat . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
^ Schleifer, Theodore (18 January 2019).
"The investment firm famous for its early bet on Facebook has been losing top talent" . Vox . Retrieved 26 May 2020 .
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