Sequoia’s Michael Moritz: Look out for “the Unexpected” | Stanford Graduate School of Business
Sequoia’s Michael Moritz offered his investing insights to an audience of Stanford GSB students at a recent View from the Top event. | Stacy Geiken As one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, Sequoia Capital’s Sir Michael Moritz has helped launch some of the globe’s most significant tech companies of the past 30 years. He’s done it by continually educating himself, despite no formal technical training. “I wish I understood more about the details of technology and engineering and all the rest of it,” he says. “But you can’t be an expert in everything.” Named the no. 1 venture capitalist on Forbes’ “Midas List” in 2006 and 2007, Moritz open in new window also earned a place on the 2007 Time “100” list of most influential people. Educated at Oxford, the Welsh native immigrated to the U.S. in 1976, earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and went on to work as bureau chief for Time magazine in San Francisco, where he covered technology in Silicon V
March 12, 2019 | by Beth Jensen As one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, Sequoia Capital’s Sir Michael Moritz has helped launch some of the globe’s most significant tech companies of the past 30 years. He’s done it by continually educating himself, despite no formal technical training. “I wish I understood more about the details of technology and engineering and all the rest of it,” he says. “But you can’t be an expert in everything.” Named the no. 1 venture capitalist on Forbes ’ “Midas List” in 2006 and 2007, Moritz also earned a place on the 2007 Time “100” list of most influenti
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