Greylock Partners

In early 2022, Greylock Partners hired Mustafa Suleyman as a venture partner. Suleyman had been placed on administrative leave from DeepMind in 2019 following complaints about bullying employees. Suleyman publicly acknowledged the issue, stating he had been 'very demanding and pretty relentless' and that 'a couple of colleagues made a complaint about my management style.' The hiring raised questions about accountability for workplace misconduct in tech leadership.

In September 2020, Greylock Partners partnered with Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) to address diversity and inclusion in tech. The partnership connected MLT's network of ~8,000 Black, Latinx, and Indigenous professionals with roles at Greylock portfolio companies, supported retention, and helped MLT professionals pursue careers in venture capital. Partner David Sze acknowledged VCs and startups had been 'really bad at getting this right.'

In its Fund 16 raise, Greylock Partners made the deliberate decision to only add new limited partners (LPs) with a specific focus on diversity and inclusion, including Management Leadership for Tomorrow. This was part of a broader effort to diversify tech's wealth cycle by ensuring that underrepresented communities could participate as investors in venture capital, not just as employees. The firm also partnered with Dreamscape to connect Black executives with leadership opportunities at portfolio companies.

Greylock partner Reid Hoffman, along with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, established a $27 million Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund as a joint venture between the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Hoffman also joined the board of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and launched the Hoffman-Yee Research Grants for interdisciplinary AI research. While attributed to Hoffman personally, his role as a Greylock partner connects the firm to AI ethics investment.

Greylock Partners led a $25 million financing round for Facebook in April 2006, investing $12.7 million when the platform was still in its early stages. Partner David Sze joined Facebook's board. Facebook/Meta later faced extensive documented harms including data privacy violations (Cambridge Analytica), mental health impacts on teens, misinformation amplification, and content moderation failures. Greylock has not publicly criticized Meta's documented harms despite being a major early investor.