#94 Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz on Forbes

Michael Moritz - There isn’t an aspect of human life that technological entrepreneurialism doesn’t touch.

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Michael Moritz on Forbes

Michael Moritz is Chairman of Sequoia Capital where he has worked since 1986. Michael represented Sequoia in its investments in Google, Yahoo, PayPal, Flextronics, Kayak, Pure Digital, and Zappos.com.

Oct. 16 -- Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital's chairman and a British honorary knight, comments on venture capital during an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Studio 1.0."

Moritz, a signatory to the Giving Pledge, has demonstrated a strong commitment to education, mostly through large donations to the schools he has a connection with. In 2000, he founded the Crankstart Foundation with his wife Harriet Heyman, which in a recent year, held more than $680 million in assets, and gave away over $8 million.

Partner, Sequoia Capital

Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz KBE (born 12 September 1954)[4] is a Welsh-born venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in Silicon Valley, a philanthropist and author of the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom and of "Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler"[5] Previously, Moritz was a staff writer at Time magazine and a member of the board of directors of Google.[6] He studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and went on to found Technologic Partners before becoming a venture capitalist in the 1980s. Moritz was named as the No. 1 venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2006 and 2007.[7]