A Top Silicon Valley V.C. Explains Why Slack Drives Him Crazy | Vanity Fair - 0 views
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I’m an investor in a company called Quip. The idea is, if you take Microsoft Office—Word and Excel—and re-do that with modern mobile materials, what does that look like? Suddenly you get this document-construction tool that’s infused with real-time notification and touch-screen collaboration, and it feels much more alive than typing a Word document.
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"John Lilly, a partner at Greylock Partners, invests in companies that zhuzh office productivity tools for today's mobile worker. He sits on the board of Quip (a more collaborative Microsoft Word) and Figma (an Adobe Photoshop for the sharing generation), among others. He also led Greylock's investment in Dropbox, along with its stakes in Tumblr, acquired by Yahoo in 2013, and Instagram, which Facebook bought in 2012. Before joining Greylock in 2011, Lilly was C.E.O. of Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, the Web browser that quietly grabbed share from Microsoft's then-dominant Internet Explorer in the early 2000s. While Lilly is betting on a new generation of Microsoft antagonists, he explains why he isn't writing off the software giant, how new tools will change the way we work, and why he finds Slack so vexing."
