Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist and former journalist who served as a partner at Sequoia Capital for nearly four decades until departing the firm in July 2023. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to HRTG Partners, formerly known as Sequoia Heritage, an independent wealth-management fund he helped launch. He is best known for his early investments in companies including Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, LinkedIn, and Stripe, and for authoring The Little Kingdom, the first major history of Apple Inc. He earned degrees from Christ Church, Oxford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania before beginning his career as a journalist at Time magazine.