
Current Firm
Greylock
Investments
15+ companies
Focus
AI, Cybersecurity
About Jerry Chen
Reid Hoffman is widely known as Silicon Valley's "network philosopher" who treats networks—not just products or markets—as the central design object, using concepts like "network intelligence" and "network literacy" as explicit frameworks for evaluating founders and building companies. He co-created and popularized the concept of "blitzscaling"—a deliberate strategy of prioritizing speed over efficiency to build category-defining companies—and draws on his rare full-stack founding background from PayPal to LinkedIn to Greylock when coaching founders on scaling and governance.
Focus Areas
AICybersecurityEnterpriseConsumerFintechSaaS
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Christine Kim
Asheem Chandna
Josh McFarland
Corinne Marie Riley
David Sze
Saam Motamedi
Mike Duboe
Seth Rosenberg
Jerry Chen
Coinbase
Pure Storage
Okta
Instabase
Abnormal Security
Roblox