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He 2x'd Instagram's valuation in 3 Days: Why Nothing About AI Is Settled Yet || John Lilly
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- TruthWorks
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- Jul 21, 2026
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- 2605
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Summary
John Lilly has had a front row seat to almost every major shift in technology over the last thirty years, and he has sat in almost every chair while it happened. He was a Senior Scientist at Apple in 1997, when the market cap was two billion dollars and most people assumed the company was finished. He co-founded Reactivity, later acquired by Cisco. He became CEO of Mozilla and led Firefox past 450 million users, running an open source nonprofit at a time when nobody else in Silicon Valley wa...