James Slavet

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.