Jim Breyer
$3.2B
Born
Jul 26, 1961
Age
64
Source of Wealth
Venture capital
Residence
Austin, Texas
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Widowed
Children
4
Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
- One of Facebook's first venture investors, Jim Breyer made much of his fortune investing in the social network.
- After 28 years at venture firm Accel Partners, Breyer started his own firm, Breyer Capital, in 2006 and has bet on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.
- He has invested in over 40 companies that have had successful IPOs or mergers, and is the second largest individual shareholder of stablecoin firm Circle, which went public in June 2025.
- Breyer is a trustee of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and SFMOMA in San Francisco and a board member of investment firm Blackstone.
- Breyer's second wife Angela Chao, a sister-in-law of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, died in a car accident in February 2024.
- Breyer, whose parents fled Hungary, spent his early years living in a funeral home in New Haven because it was the cheapest place to live while his dad went to Yale.
- In 1982, Breyer sent his resume to Steve Jobs, who forwarded it to the director of marketing. He was hired for the summer and part-time while he was at Stanford.
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