greylockpartners

Current Companies

 

Past Investments

Auditude (Acquired by Adobe in 2011), Farecast (Acquired by Microsoft in 2008), Kongregate (Acquired by GameStop in 2010)

About

James Slavet’s primary areas of investment focus are e-commerce, online advertising and Web-enabled business services. James has been a founder and early employee of several startups, as well as a senior executive leading business units with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

James’ investments include Cardspring, Coupons.com, Groupon (IPO in 2011), High Gear Media, One Kings Lane, Redfin, Revision3, and TellApart. He previously represented Greylock in its investments in Auditude (acquired by Adobe), Farecast (acquired by Microsoft) and Kongregate (acquired by Gamestop).

Prior to Greylock, James was a VP/GM in the Search & Marketplace business unit at Yahoo!, where he managed large commerce and advertising-based businesses. He’s also worked in product development and operations roles in several early stage consumer technology companies, including Guru (acquired by Unicru), Drugstore.com (acquired by Walgreens), and Wired (acquired by Conde Nast and Lycos).

James graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University and from Harvard Business School. He is on the national advisory board of DonorsChoose.org and is an advisor to other Internet-enabled non profits.

James is married with two young sons, one of whom thinks he’s Spiderman.

Latest Blog Post

The Credit Card Is The New App Platform

March 07th – Credit and debit cards are ubiquitous, but they’re mostly pretty dumb. That’s about to change. Over 170 million people in the U.S. have credit cards, and the average card holder has 3.5 of them. And those totals are not even counting debit cards, which are roughly 40% of the total market and growing. That’s a [...] Leave a Comment