Navin Chaddha

Navin Chaddha Contributor Share on X Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record. More posts by this contributor A ‘people-first’ view of the AI economy 5 questions investors should be asking inception-stage generative AI founders

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record.

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A ‘people-first’ view of the AI economy

We have customized our 'people-first' framework to apply to AI companies and are using it to guide our investment decisions.

5 questions investors should be asking inception-stage generative AI founders

As we meet with many AI-native founders, here are the top five pieces of company-building advice we’re sharing with them.

10 questions early-stage founders should be asking investors

While it might seem daunting to question potential investors, remember that you need to build a mutual zone of trust for the long journey.

Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

My third startup had been in the market only a year when the internet bubble burst and had not yet found product-market fit.

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

For founders, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening.

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

The irony is that there’s never been a better time to be an inception investor given lower capital needs of getting from idea to Series A milestones.

Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries

We face two major threats today: one to the health of our planet and the other to our own. Fortunately, biology and technology are creating fixes for the planet as well as for the human body.

The renaissance of silicon will create industry giants

With the end of Moore’s Law, new semiconductors are required for a cloud-native, data-dominated, AI-powered, IoT world. The rise of new players will put silicon back into Silicon Valley.

A people-first view of investing in innovation or entrepreneurs who take people for granted will fail

I have long been fascinated by the promise of the world of autonomous transport. However, as the conversation at a recent event turned to the complexities that autonomous cars might introduce to the u

Jason Kilar on founding Vessel and the wonderful world of customer service

Jason Kilar’s interest in customer service was sparked by a visit to Disney World when he was 10 years old. The wonder he felt as he walked underneath the train station and out onto Main Street stay

NFX Guild’s James Currier’s journey from baiting hooks to baiting big deals

Navin Chaddha Contributor Share on X Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record. More posts by this contributor A ‘people-fir

Journeying from entrepreneur to investor and back again

Navin Chaddha Contributor Share on X Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record. More posts by this contributor A ‘people-fir

Elastica’s chief executive Rehan Jalil on being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley

Serial entrepreneur discusses his journey starting up and exiting two tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra on moving from enterprise businesses to social shopping

Manish Chandra is founder and CEO of Poshmark. As a serial entrepreneur, he also founded Kaboodle in 2005, one of the industry's first social shopping sites, that was acquired by Hearst, and prior to

Jake Winebaum explains how cutting his teeth as a serial entrepreneur led him to launch Brighter

Serial entrepreneur Jake Winebaum discusses the road to launch Brighter, his dental benefits startup.

Nutanix CEO & Serial Entrepreneur Dheeraj Pandey On “Letting Go” As A Leader

Navin Chaddha Contributor Share on X Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record. More posts by this contributor A ‘people-fir

Serial Entrepreneur Max Levchin On Leaving A Legacy

In this podcast, Max talks about having true passion for an area of business, on the difficulty of building network effects businesses, the happiest day of an entrepreneur’s life, and leaving a lega

Ex-MySQL CEO Marten Mickos On Leadership And The Open Source Revolution

Marten Mickos discusses leadership lessons, the evolution of open source and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe.

From The North Pole To Northern Californian Startups: A Conversation With Chris Michel

Chris Michel talks about the similarity between photographing the North Pole and being an entrepreneur, his learnings from being fired as CEO of his first company, similarities and differences between

Venky Harinarayan On E-Commerce And Focus

Venky Harinarayan, is an e-commerce veteran who co-founded comparison shopping engine Junglee (acquired by Amazon in 1998), worked closely with Jeff Bezos to create Amazon Marketplace, created topical
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