You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jervinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar, brought to you

weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

And today's guest for the first of the quarter is Janice Roberts, who is the managing director of the Mayfield Fund.

And she has been, how many years have you been there?

Six and a half.

Okay, six and a half years at Mayfield.

And before that, she was involved with starting the investment portfolio for three-com ventures.

She was educated in the UK and has a degree in

economics and finance. Without further ado, Janice Roberts. Thank you. So first of all, thanks very

much for having me here this afternoon at the relative start of a new year.

So I'm excited to have the opportunity to get to know you a little bit.

I'll speak for a few minutes, a few, maybe a few more than a few.

And then I'd like to have the opportunity to get some questions from you, which I hope I can answer.

But it's always good to get your thinking and I can take

that back to my partners and beyond and it really is good to get to know what you're thinking about.

Now one thing I will mention, Tina kindly mentioned our Mayfield Fellows program and just to give

you a sense of how important that is, I have a young son, he's 12 and he's at middle school

and he wasn't doing so

well in his PE class he wasn't really paying attention he's a bit of a cheeky

guy and so I emailed his PE teacher and he emailed me back and he called me

back and I thought well this is great this is very responsive from a teacher

turns out his wife was a Mayfield fellow.

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