John Lilly has spent 30 years building and backing technology companies, serving as an Advising Partner at Gigascale Capital. He was a General Partner at Greylock and CEO of Mozilla, with roles at Apple and Trilogy Software.
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- Trilogy Software · executive team
- Apple · research team
- Reactivity · founding CEO and later CTO
- Mozilla · CEO
- Greylock · General Partner
- Gigascale Capital · Advising PartnerNow
- Reactivity · co-founder, founding CEO, later CTO
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Who is John Lilly?
John Lilly has spent 30 years building and backing technology companies, serving as an Advising Partner at Gigascale Capital. He was a General Partner at Greylock and CEO of Mozilla, with roles at Apple and Trilogy Software.
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What did John Lilly do before Gigascale Capital?
executive team at Trilogy Software; research team at Apple; founding CEO and later CTO at Reactivity; CEO at Mozilla; General Partner at Greylock; co-founder, founding CEO, later CTO at Reactivity.
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