Rank #1020
Kavitark Ram Shriram
Net worth $4.2B
Google, venture capital · United States
- Born
- Jan 21, 1957
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Google, venture capital
- Residence
- Menlo Park, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Madras
Net worth over time
Biography
- An early Google backer, Kavitark Ram Shriram has sold of most of his stock but remains on the board of its parent company, Alphabet.
- Born in India, Shriram studied math at the University of Madras. After moving to the U.S. he joined Netscape in 1994 as an executive.
- Later he became president of Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm acquired by Amazon in 1998. Ram took on a vice president position at Amazon.
- He left Amazon and since 2000 has been investing in technology startups through his firm, Sherpalo Ventures.
- His portfolio includes online invitation service Paperless Post, online HR service provider Gusto and mobile advertising company InMobi.
- In 2014, Shriram and his wife donated $61 million to engineering initiatives at Stanford University, which both of his daughters attended and where he is a trustee.
- The name of Shriram's VC company, Sherpalo, comes from combining the words sherpa and Palo Alto.
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