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. THEATER AND FILM INVESTING/PRODUCING Tony Award winner/nominated: & Juliet, 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), 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. 150+ POps alumni who have since become CHROs. 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.