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Greylock
Company blog · greylock.com/greymatterstartupsbusiness
Greylock is the company blog at greylock.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “AI for the Next Era”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Greylock's Greymatter blog publishes essays, interview transcripts and market maps on startups, cloud infrastructure, AI and remote work. HN commenters link its posts as sources and transcripts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
Most-linked posts?
- AI for the Next Era3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-14
- The Philosopher- Entrepreneur2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21
- Building Companies in Times of Change2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-19
- The New New Moats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
What Hacker News says?
It's rather ironic that many of the most famous people in the VC industry actually publish their email addresses [1], and then those same people will refuse any deal that comes to them this way. It's almost as if these addresses are there to perpetuate the myth that Silicon Valley is open to all comers as long as they've made something great, when the reality is that it's only open to a tiny sliver of entrepreneurs…
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on “Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]”Submitted Remote First at Quora as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the "fellowship" programs such as those offered by Bain Venture Capital Group ( http://www.baincapitalventures.com/startupacademy/ ) and Greylock Partners Network ( http://www.greylock.com/careers ). For those who haven't heard of either - essentially they allow candidates to apply to a broader "portfolio" of companies that Greylock or Bain represents. Internal recruiters then try to match the can…
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on “This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job”Submitted Myths About Failure as a story · 93 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted Mapping the 3 big Clouds: Castles in the Cloud as a story · 15 points
HN discussionReid Hoffman just published a book written with gpt4 [0] so it’s not even a hypothetical. He made it available as a free ebook but it’s also for sale on Amazon. I wonder if people remove his portions and just retain the ai portion if they can distribute it freely. [0] https://greylock.com/greymatter/amplifying-humanity-through-...
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on “U.S. Copyright Office Issues Statement on Works Containing AI-Generated Material”Submitted Greylock Partners Announce a $1b Fund as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks! I'm one of the authors of the project. Here's blog that highlights some opportunities we see in the cloud. https://greylock.com/greymatter/funding-the-cloud-challenger...
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on “Mapping the 3 big Clouds: Castles in the Cloud”Submitted Building Companies in Times of Change as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTranscript is here: - https://greylock.com/greymatter/sam-altman-ai-for-the-next-e...
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on “OpenAI CEO chats with board member about “AI for the Next Era””Submitted The New New Moats as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne of the sources quoted in the article is Stanford Economist Nick Bloom. He did an interview a few years ago. The transcript ish here: “What workers want” (2021) https://greylock.com/greymatter/nicholas-bloom-stanford-what...
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on “Ask HN: Why are everybody going back to hybrid? Did remote work fail?”Submitted Building Companies in Times of Change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product-Led AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Field Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greylock: Welcome, Mustafa Suleyman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Companies in Times of Change – Greylock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosopher- Entrepreneur as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosopher Entrepreneur as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber’s Future in Mobility and Delivery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb Reflections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The GitHub of Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greylock's Billion Dollar Fund as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vertical AI SaaS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greylock Edge: From Concept to Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New New Moats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI for the Next Era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI for the Next Era as a story · 1 points
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