Rank #435
Michael Moritz
Net worth $8.3B
Venture capital · United States
- Born
- Sep 12, 1954
- Age
- 71
- Source
- Venture capital
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Christ Church, Oxford University; Master of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Wales native Michael Moritz got his start as a journalist at Time Magazine after immigrating to America in 1976.
- Moritz wrote an early biography of Steve Jobs and Apple, "The Little Kingdom," while he was Time's San Francisco bureau chief.
- After making the jump to venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, Moritz invested in companies such as Google, LinkedIn and PayPal.
- He stepped back from a leadership role at Sequoia in 2012 after being diagnosed with a rare and undisclosed medical condition.
- In 2023, Sequoia announced in a letter to its limited partners that Moritz had left the firm after 38 years.
- Moritz said in the letter he intended to shift focus to Sequoia Heritage, a wealth management business that runs independently to the venture practice.
- Moritz was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2013 for his philanthropic work.
- Moriz co-authored a non-fiction book with longtime Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in 2015.
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