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Michael Moritz
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Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley.
Moritz was born in 1954 in Cardiff, Wales and educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church a college of the University of Oxford, where he received a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
His internet company investments include Google, Yahoo!, and PayPal, as well as Webvan, PlanetRx, and eToys. Google was a rare co-investment with John Doerr of rival venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
Moritz joined Sequoia in 1986, after working as a reporter for Time, writing the 1984 book The Little Kingdom: the Private Story of Apple Computer, and co-founding Technologic Partners, a technology newsletter and conference company.
- Profile, The Observer, October 2006
- Michael Moritz's LinkedIn Profile