Laszlo Bock
Founder of University of California
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Co-Faculty Director of the Berkeley Transformative CHRO Academy
2024 - Current
Board Member
2024
Investor, Coach and Producer
2017
TECHNOLOGY INVESTING/ADVISING 55% unicorn rate and 80% unicorn/exited rate across all investments. Early investor/advisor to 11 unicorns (Addepar, BetterUp, Carbon, Collective Health, Guardant Health, Maven Clinic, Multiverse, Seekout, Taboola, Thumbtack, and Uber) and early stage companies (Ceramic.ai, Draftwise, Halo, Ninjatech.ai, and Thatch.ai). Other successful exits include Affectiva, Agilone, Coda, Evolv, and Neeva. THEATER AND FILM INVESTING/PRODUCING Tony Award winner: & Juliet Tony Award nominated: Almost Famous (Exec Producer), Days of Wine and Roses (Exec Producer), Sister Act, The Notebook (Exec Producer) Documentary films: Folktales, Gaucho Gaucho (Exec Producer - Sundance Award winner, Locarno Film Festival Award winner), Move Ya Body: The Birth of House and Rapinoe (Exec Producer)
Co-Founder and Board Chair
2019 - 2025
Acquired by NVIDIA in 2025. The synthetic data platform purpose-built for AI.
Gretel is a multimodal synthetic data platform that leverages advanced generative AI and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Raised $67,699,996.00 from Moonshots Capital, Section 32, Anthos Capital and Greylock.
Co-Founder, CEO and Board Chair
2017 - 2023
Acquired by Perceptyx in 2023. Making work better for everyone, everywhere through science, machine learning, and a little bit of love.
Board Member and Chair, HR and Compensation Committee
2020 - 2022
Advisory Board Member
2017 - 2021
Co-founded by Vice President Al Gore, our vision is a sustainable world in which prosperity is shared broadly, in a society that achieves wellbeing for all, protects nature and preserves a habitable climate.
SVP, People Operations (CHRO) / Executive Committee Member
2006 - 2016
First head of People Operations for Google/Alphabet. 3 CEOs. 15x revenue growth. 12x headcount growth. >200 acquisitions. Google Job Search. People Analytics. Project Oxygen. Project Aristotle. Project Cerebro. DEI. Re:Work. 3M applicants per year. LGBTQ global benefits. Death benefits. Many, many centi-threads.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Author, WORK RULES!
2015 - 2015
Required textbook at Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Wharton, USC, Berklee College of Music and other universities. 100% of book income donated to charity. "A bold, inspiring, and actionable vision that will transform the future of work. It should be mandatory reading for everyone who leads, manages, or has a job."―Adam Grant "A dazzling revelation: at once an all-access backstage pass to one of the smartest organizations on the planet, and also an immensely useful blueprint for creating a culture of creativity."―Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code "A remarkable book that reveals the secrets of becoming a talent powerhouse. He shows the many benefits of a high freedom culture with a mission that matters."―Dan Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
Hachette Book Group is a US trade publisher.