Mark Siegel is a technical physicist-turned-VC at Menlo Ventures who studied physics at MIT and worked in product management at Oracle and early business development at Netscape before becoming an investor, giving him direct experience with both enterprise software and the early commercial internet. He developed a detailed investment thesis called The Right Now Economy focused on opportunities at the intersection of mobile, social, cloud computing, and data, and actively serves on boards of enterprise-tech and robotics companies while supporting graduate physics students at MIT through a fund he established with his wife. Mark Siegel is a technical physicist-turned-VC at Menlo Ventures who studied physics at MIT and worked in product management at Oracle and early business development at Netscape before becoming an investor, giving him direct experience with both enterprise software and the early commercial internet. He developed a detailed investment thesis called The Right Now Economy focused on opportunities at the intersection of mobile, social, cloud computing, and data, and actively serves on boards of enterprise-tech and robotics companies while supporting graduate physics students at MIT through a fund he established with his wife.