Digitizing Biology and Scaling Precision Medicine Companies

Building a People-First Community of B2B Go-To-Market Leaders

As an operator-turned-investor, I have worked at a few great companies, been fortunate to partner with dozens of iconic founders, and observed patterns in hundreds of ...

BigPanda Raises $50M Series C

CloudSimple Acquired By Google Cloud

I first met Guru Pangal over a decade ago, when we invested in his company StorSimple. He along with my partner Ursheet Parikh (co-founder of StorSimple ...

Partnering with a Dream Team to Take on Intel and AMD

As I have said before, we are witnessing a renaissance of silicon.  With the end of Moore’s Law, new semiconductors are required for a mobile-first, cloud-native, data-dominated, ...

How 5G Will Change Everything

It's not too hyperbolic to say that the emergence of 5G networks brings us to the cusp of a new and truly exciting era of innovation. ...

How CIOs Can Take Advantage of Kubernetes

Kubernetes is taking the app development world by storm. Already, 77% of companies with more than 1,000 developers that run Kubernetes are using it in production. ...

Dev.to: Authentic Founders with a Bold Mission and the Power of Open Source Can Build Industry Defining Companies

When we first met Mitch and Armon, the founders of HashiCorp, their open source products had already been downloaded millions of times. They had codified their motivations and intentions ...

A 7-Year Relationship With Ankur Singla Turns Into a Formal Partnership as He Builds the Industry’s First Distributed Cloud Platform

One of our beliefs at Mayfield is that we provide mentor capital, not just venture capital. I first met serial entrepreneur Ankur Singla, founder of Volterra ...

Five Tips for Effective Entrepreneur-Investor Pitch Meetings

[caption id="attachment_5801" align="aligncenter" width="795" class="-wrap"] Photo Credit: Getty[/caption] I recently participated in a workshop by Steven Rogelberg, author of “The Surprising Science of Meetings,” and found ...