Venture Capitalists

Bill Joy

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and author of the vi editor and BSD Unix

Born 1954

Marc Andreessen

Co-creator of the Mosaic browser, co-founder of Netscape and venture capitalist

Born 1971

Kai-Fu Lee

Taiwanese AI pioneer and investor who led Google China and founded 01.AI

Born 1961

John Doerr

Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist who backed Google and Amazon and popularised OKRs

Born 1951

Jerry Yang

Taiwanese-American co-founder of Yahoo!

Born 1968

Vinod Khosla

Indian-American co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures

Born 1955

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn and influential Silicon Valley investor

Born 1967

Peter Thiel

PayPal co-founder, Palantir co-founder and first outside investor in Facebook

Born 1967

Niklas Zennström

Swedish co-founder of Skype and Kazaa and founder of Atomico

Born 1966

Michael Moritz

Welsh-born Sequoia investor who backed Google, Yahoo and PayPal

Born 1954

Mary Meeker

“Queen of the Internet” known for her Internet Trends reports

Hermann Hauser

Austrian-born entrepreneur who co-founded Acorn Computers and helped create ARM

Born 1948

Don Valentine

Founder of Sequoia Capital, an early investor in Apple and Atari

1932 – 2019

Chamath Palihapitiya

Sri Lankan-born Canadian investor who led growth at Facebook and founded Social Capital

Born 1976

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Born 1966

Arthur Rock

Pioneer venture capitalist who funded Intel and Apple

Born 1926

Aneel Bhusri

Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Workday

Born 1966