Co-Founder (1965) at Greylock Partners · Joined 1965
View Live Interactive Profile →Bill Elfers founded Greylock & Co. in Boston in 1965 after eighteen years at American Research and Development Corporation, which he joined in 1947 and where he was senior vice president from 1951, second to founder Georges Doriot. He was Greylock's managing partner and president, and he built the firm on a partnership model that relied on numerous limited partners rather than a single funding family, with early limited partners including the Corning family, Arthur and Thomas Watson of IBM, and Sherman Fairchild. He stepped down as chief executive and chairman in 1976 but remained closely involved as a general partner until the late 1990s, and he wrote Greylock: An Adventure Capital Story, a history of the firm from 1965 to 1995. He died on June 21, 2005 at age 87.