John Lilly has done almost every job in tech—founder, CTO, CEO of Mozilla (where he grew Firefox to hundreds of millions of users), board member, teacher, and now Advising Partner at Gigascale—giving him a rare mix of technical depth and product sense. He's known for backing enduring, well-designed products like Instagram, Dropbox, Figma, Duolingo, and Nuro, and for staying closely involved through board seats and advising long after the initial investment.
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Gigascale Capital focuses on the physical economy—energy systems, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure—and backs founders based on whether their products are cheaper, faster, and more reliable than existing options, with reduced emissions as a natural result rather than the main selling point. As a for-profit fund built to prove that industrial and climate investing can generate strong returns, it works across the full path from prototype to deployed infrastructure, using AI to speed up design and manufacturing, and it holds a deliberately wide mix of investments—from rare-earth refining to nuclear microreactors and fusion—under the shared goal of rebuilding industrial foundations rather than backing one specific climate category.
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