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Don Valentine
ROLE FOUNDERMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN AUGUST 24, 2026
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Don Valentine was an American venture capitalist who founded Sequoia Capital in 1972, a firm that became one of the most influential in Silicon Valley. He is best known for early investments in companies such as Apple, Atari, Oracle, Cisco, Google, and NVIDIA. His investing philosophy emphasized targeting large markets and backing founders with intellectual humility and adaptability. He passed away on October 25, 2019, at age 87.
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mention·20VC·AUGUST 24, 2026
“If you look at founders you like versus founders who make money as a two by two matrix, your job is to figure out in which part of the quadrant we make money.”
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