Mo Shafieeha

After his startup was acquired, Tuhin Srivastava was only a few months into unemployment when I met him at Greylock. During the discussion that led to Baseten, we spent several hours discussing it, and I found the diagram that he had recreated in some form many times over the past two years from our first meeting notes. I have been searching for a... See more

Because this happened to me — and I knew better — I think you need to remember it! You'll have to fire under-performers to retain good people on your team. You will find it difficult to fire under-performers until you have to. We don't like uncomfortable things. It will be extremely difficult for you."After leaving the company a year later, a... See more

---------PROTOCOL LEADERSHIP Kain Warwick, Synthetix's former "benevolent dictator," recently explained a problem arising from the decentralized governance of Synthetix. Warwick recalls stepping away from his de facto leadership position and leaving the Spartan Council, a democratically elected body that approved Synthetix protocol changes and was... See more

Step4: Plan Your Company Strategy. You must understand the broader context in which your product will live as a startup founder. Customers usually envision hiring a services firm to come and fix their problems completely as their "ideal solution." As a startup, you should develop a compelling, generalizable solution.

Diller's IAC acquired, grew, and spun off multiple subsidiaries in the past two decades, including Match Group, Expedia, and Vimeo. Many are known for creating influential executives, many of whom become industry leaders. A number of these leaders include Michael Eisner (Disney), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Dawn Steel (Columbia Pictures), Jeffrey... See more

Our Investment in Baseten

Implementing ML requires high coordination, highly skilled engineering, and product development. Baseten's co-founders were data scientists who scrappily became full-stack engineers so they could use machine learning to mitigate fraud and abuse and moderate user-generated content. At Clover Health, Amir led teams that developed machine learning... See more