James Slavet joined Greylock in 2006. His areas of focus include:
consumer internet, mobile, and technology-assisted marketing services.
James has an extensive background as an entrepreneur and general
manager in the software, Internet and media industries. Most recently,
he worked at Yahoo!, as vice president/general manager of the travel
and automotive businesses. Travel and automotive are two of the largest
online verticals in the U.S., and Ja...
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James Slavet joined Greylock in 2006. His areas of focus include:
consumer internet, mobile, and technology-assisted marketing services.
James has an extensive background as an entrepreneur and general
manager in the software, Internet and media industries. Most recently,
he worked at Yahoo!, as vice president/general manager of the travel
and automotive businesses. Travel and automotive are two of the largest
online verticals in the U.S., and James was responsible for leading the
growth of these two businesses for the company.
Prior to Yahoo!, he
served in key product management, marketing, business development and
general management roles in several startup ventures, He was
founder/chief operating officer of Guru, an online recruitment company,
through its merger with Unicru; a launch team member of online consumer
health company Drugstore.com; and the manager of new business ventures
for the pioneering internet/media company Wired, which was acquired by
Conde Nast and Lycos. James also worked as a strategy consultant at
Monitor Company.
He holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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