About
(photo credit Joi Ito)
This blog is the semi-regular stream-of-consciousness of John Lilly, who’s a techie by background, reads a lot, advises several startups, is a Partner at Greylock Partners, was previously CEO of Mozilla, and most importantly is a father & husband. Here’s my LinkedIn profile.
Some of My Favorite Blog Entries
- Kit
- Adventures of the Mind
- Reading Books on iPad and Kindle: A Comparison
- A Picture’s Worth 100M Users?
Other Projects I’m Involved With
- Investments in Tumblr, Citrus Lane, ClearSlide and a few others in stealth mode
- Participatory Culture Foundation – Board of Directors
- Stanford d.School – Consulting Assistant Professor
- Vast – Advisor
A Few Past Affiliations
- TripIt (acquired by Concur in 2011) – Board of Directors
- SayNow (acquired by Google in 2011) – Advisor
- Reactivity (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007) – Founder, Exec & Board of Directors
- CenterRun (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003) – Board of Directors
- Sunnyvale Public Library – Board of Library Trustees


Some followup thoughts on my SOPA post
Feb 3, 23:21 › Travis: Man, SOPA and PIPA just drive me crazy. I am shocked Jan 11, 17:22 › John Stack: Have you considered #OPEN? Personally, it is as far Jan 11, 16:51 › Brad Feld: Fantastic John. I couldn't have said it better myself Jan 10, 15:34 › Robert Kaiser: "What I think we really need to figure out is how