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Greylock Partners retweeted
That was fun! Here’s some of my favorite things we announced today at @Wealthsimple Presents.
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3. Wealthsimple Pay: send up to $100,000 instantly and safely. That’s ~33x what most big banks allow on e-Transfer.
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And I can't wait to ship our beautiful+fast new mobile apps.
Oh yeah, and we gave one lucky client a million dollars!
Check out the full livestream here: youtube.com/live/MReTQMhB-FA…
Greylock Partners retweeted
Big news: We've entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by @Salesforce!
We built Cresta to make great customer experiences an unlimited resource through a single AI operating system for customer experience. Today marks a major step forward in that journey.
Together, we see an opportunity to realize that vision at scale with Cresta complementing Salesforce’s first-class customer service platform.
More: salesforce.com/news/stories/…
One of the biggest bets startup employees make is on the founder. That trust may not be tested until years later, when the company exits.
A startup can sell for billions, and the people who helped build it can walk away with vastly different outcomes.
During M&A negotiations, investors bought in at different prices and have different return expectations.
The buyer has its own priorities. Employees don’t have a seat at the negotiating table, even when the deal could be a life-changing event for them. So much can come down to whether the founder has their back when they're not in the room.
In the latest Greylock Originals, @chronosphereio co-founder Martin Mao (@martin_c_mao )and Greylock Partner @jerrychen share what happened behind the scenes of Palo Alto Networks' $3.35B acquisition of the company.
00:00 The decision behind the headline
01:01 Why sell a fast growing company?
02:15 What makes an offer worth accepting?
03:36 "You only get one chance to sell"
05:18 A first-time founder vs. a Fortune 500 CEO
07:11 Who speaks for the employees?
Greylock Partners retweeted
One of the biggest bets startup employees make is on the founder. That trust may not be tested until years later, when the company exits.
A startup can sell for billions, and the people who helped build it can walk away with vastly different outcomes.
During M&A negotiations, investors bought in at different prices and have different return expectations.
The buyer has its own priorities. Employees don’t have a seat at the negotiating table, even when the deal could be a life-changing event for them. So much can come down to whether the founder has their back when they're not in the room.
In the latest Greylock Originals, @chronosphereio co-founder Martin Mao (@martin_c_mao )and Greylock Partner @jerrychen share what happened behind the scenes of Palo Alto Networks' $3.35B acquisition of the company.
00:00 The decision behind the headline
01:01 Why sell a fast growing company?
02:15 What makes an offer worth accepting?
03:36 "You only get one chance to sell"
05:18 A first-time founder vs. a Fortune 500 CEO
07:11 Who speaks for the employees?
Congratulations to the entire @cresta team on this remarkable milestone! Proud to have partnered with you since Series A and excited for what’s ahead with @salesforce. 🎉🎉🎉
On Monday, Cresta announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce.
When Greylock Partners led @Cresta's Series A in 2019, co-founders @zaydenam and @timshi_ai were pioneering generative AI, long before the term existed, and using it to transform customer experience. @ping_wu joined the team in 2021 and became CEO in 2023, building on that foundation to scale an exceptional organization that serves companies like Marriott, Comcast, and Alaska Airlines.
Seven years later, I deeply appreciate the conviction, customer focus, and persistence behind Cresta’s journey. It has been a privilege to partner with Zayd, Tim, Ping, and with the many extraordinary people who have made this possible. Excited for more of their journey to be shared soon.
Together with Salesforce, the Cresta team has the opportunity to bring its platform and technology to many more businesses and their customers.
Congratulations to everyone at Cresta. All of us at @GreylockVC will be cheering you on in this next chapter.
Greylock Partners retweeted
SuperMe announced its Series A today, led by our good friend @kirstenagreen at @ForerunnerVC, and we're excited to keep backing the team.
@onecaseman & @ludo_antonov are two of the absolute best operators in the world when it comes to consumer networks, and they've taught a whole generation of builders how growth works. So it's fitting that their current ambition is to build the AI-native expertise network.
We led the initial investment back when @SuperMeAI was simply an exploration of "why aren't any AI products being built network-first?" The more we dug in, the clearer it became that existing networks and LLMs both fall short for operators who need help from someone who's done it before. Your network only reaches so far, and the best earned insights from great operators rarely get written down, so the LLMs never see them either.
The launch of Group Chats has been the most exciting in SuperMe's history. I can now pull a group of growth marketers into the Claude thread where I'm already working on my own marketing data and have them debate incrementality testing vs. media mix modeling. Each of them shows up as an AI profile built from what they've chosen to share, so I learn from people who've actually run these tests.
Excited to see the growth OGs jump into growth mode 🔥
Greylock Partners retweeted
You shouldn't need the best network to get the best insights.
SuperMe turns operators' work into profiles that work through your problem. Now in group chats, Claude and ChatGPT.
@ludo_antonov and I raised a $20M Series A led by @kirstenagreen from @ForerunnerVC with participation from @GreylockVC.
Read more about the changes here: superme.ai/blog/series-a
A top seller can be a terrible first sales hire.
After 14 years of recruiting early-stage talent, Omar Muñoz from Greylock Core Talent team breaks down the most common mistakes early-stage founders make when hiring their first salespeople:
0:57 | Pitching sellers like engineers.
2:08 | Forgetting that good sellers qualify founders, too.
2:45 | Falling for the logo trap.
5:57 | Overlooking career decisions.
6:54 | Auto-rejecting short stints.
The first sales hire needs to find customers, build pipeline, and figure out what works before a playbook exists.
Watch Omar break down these mistakes in the latest episode of In Practice.
Greylock Partners retweeted
Upwind Security
Today, @AmiramShachar and Upwind Security announce an important milestone with their $400M Series C at a $3.8B valuation, and we at @GreylockVC are proud to quadruple down.
Over the last few months, there's been growing discussion around how AI will reshape cybersecurity and where new companies can win. Upwind is the answer: revenue has quadrupled in 2026, and hundreds of organizations now rely on its platform to secure their cloud and AI environments. We at Greylock co-led Upwind's seed at inception in 2022 and its Series A, and it's been a privilege to partner from the beginning.
Amiram and the team started with a prescient thesis: security must be built around runtime, grounded in how applications and systems actually behave. As AI transforms software, scans and static snapshots are no longer enough. Detecting and preventing attacks at the speed of AI requires runtime context and real-time action. Upwind has built for this from day one, and the company's significant acceleration reflects the urgency of the need for runtime security in the AI era.
Upwind is just getting started.
Up and Up!
A founder can be right about the market, right about the product, and still run out of money before the bet pays off.
When runway gets short, founders and investors may see the same risks differently.
A down round buys time, but at a cost. Waiting preserves the chance for a better outcome, but also risks leaving the company with fewer options.
The hardest part is knowing how much confidence to place in each other's judgment. The numbers can tell you what's at stake. They can't tell you whether someone is seeing the business clearly or simply believing what they want to believe.
That understanding comes from years of working together, especially seeing how someone handles setbacks and bad news.
When the numbers turn ugly, the founder-investor relationship gets its real test.
@chronosphereio co-founder and CEO @martin_c_mao and Greylock partner @jerrychen revisit how they navigated some of the company's most consequential decisions.
0:00 Intro
01:03 Chronosphere's Early Growth
02:22 Building the Next Product
03:26 A Changing Market
04:54 A Critical Quarter
06:28 Weighing the Options
09:06 A Conversation After the Board Meeting
09:34 The Turnaround
Venture capital runs on optimism. At Greylock, we aim to be the first believer, the partner who says yes when a company is still just a bold idea in a founder’s mind.
Congratulations to Asheem Chandna @chandna, @reidhoffman, David Sze, and Aneel Bhusri being named to the Forbes 250 list of America’s Greatest Living Optimists.
Optimism is at the heart of the American dream.
In that spirit Forbes is recognizing the country’s 250 Greatest Living Optimists. These are founders who took a big risk on new possibilities, investors who prioritize long-term value over short-term gain, market-minded philanthropists and educational pioneers. #Forbes250
Read more: forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2…
Illustration: Lina Jaradat for Forbes; Photos: Guerin Blask for Forbes, Cody Pickens for Forbes, Jamel Toppin for Forbes, Martin Schoeller for Forbes, Tim Pannell for Forbes
Founders learn to obsess over product-market fit. Greylock Partner @jerrychen says to look just as hard at who should write the first check. He calls it founder-VC fit.
In 2018, Jerry read a technical blog about M3, an open source project built at Uber, led by engineers Rob Skillington @roskilli and Martin Mao @martin_c_mao. At the time, they hadn’t even decided to start a company.
What followed was a five-month courtship.
Jerry was trying to convince Martin and Rob to take his investment. As first-time founders, they were diligencing him just as closely.
Martin sent him an 85-page business plan to see who would really do the work, understand the technology, and align with where they wanted to take it.
Rob and Martin eventually started @chronosphereio, with M3 as its technical foundation and Jerry wrote the company’s first check.
Seven years later, the company was acquired by @PaloAltoNtwks for $3.35B.
For founders, choosing the early investor can shape the company’s trajectory for years. The relationship deserves as much diligence as the financing.
Full story in the comments.
Congratulations to @Tenzai_Labs and @resolveai on being named to the 2026 #Disruptors60 by @GreenfieldVC, unveiled today at @TechCrunch Disrupt.
Great to see the teams recognized among the world’s most groundbreaking AI startups, and excited to see what they build next.💪
Greylock Partners retweeted
We’re honored to be named to the @techcrunch #Disruptors60 Class of 2026!
From 17x faster root cause identification at MSCI to 87% less time to root cause at DoorDash, our team is building something that’s delivering real results.
Thank you to our team, customers, and partners!
Greylock Partners retweeted
Cybersecurity has always been asymmetric: attackers only need to find one opening, while defenders have to protect everything that matters. Now, AI is changing the scale and speed of that equation.
@chandna, Partner at @GreylockVC and Cylake board member, believes we're entering an era of machines fighting machines, where increasingly sophisticated attacks powered by “bad AI” will require equally capable “good AI” on defense.
In Episode 6 of Inside Cybersecurity, Asheem joins @renebonvanie to discuss what AI means for the cybersecurity stack, why truly AI-native architectures need to be built differently, and what three decades in cybersecurity have taught him about the people and companies that successfully navigate major technology shifts.
🎧 Watch Episode 6 of Inside Cybersecurity: cylake.substack.com/p/good-a…
At an early-stage startup, great engineering candidates are asking more than “What are you building?”
They want to know: “Why did you choose to build this?”
Abby Hart from Greylock’s Core Talent team calls this the “pre-island” story: what happened before the company, what pulled the founder toward the problem, and why that story can help candidates build enough conviction to take the risk of joining early.
More in the latest episode of In Practice on early-stage hiring.
