Jim Smith

Bio

Mr Jim Smith came to Mohr Davidow in 1999 after a successful career as a hardware designer. “A startup is like a puzzle,” Jim says. “There’s no greater reward when the pieces come together.” Jim invests in hardware startups that will provide the infrastructure for what Mohr Davidow calls “the data deluge” Mohr Davidow has long had an interest in “big data problems,” ways in which companies can make better use of the mountains of data collected and stored during the course of doing business. Mining for usable data in those vast repositories has been called the Holy Grail of computing. The Internet has only exacerbated the problem and made the potential solution more tantalizing Mr Smith received a doctorate in electrical engineering and a master's degree in industrial management from Stanford University. He also earned a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford