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Michael Moritz

For the American theatrical producer, see Michael J. Moritz Jr.

Sir
Michael Moritz
KBE
Moritz in 2013
Born
Michael Jonathan Moritz

(1954-09-12) 12 September 1954 (age 70)
Cardiff, Wales
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom, United States[1]
Education
OccupationFormer Partner at Sequoia Capital[2]
Known forVenture capitalist
SpouseHarriet Heyman
Children2

Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz KBE (born 12 September 1954)[3] is a Welsh-born American billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author, and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital, wrote the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom, and authored Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler.[4] Previously, Moritz was a staff writer at Time magazine and a member of the board of directors of Google.[5] He studied at the University of Oxford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and went on to found Technologic Partners before becoming a venture capitalist in the 1980s. Moritz was named as the No. 1 venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2006 and 2007.[6]

  1. ^ "Forbes profile: Michael Moritz". Forbes. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sequoia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Michael Moritz". www.nndb.com.
  4. ^ Moritz, Michael, and Barrett Seaman. Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler. Doubleday, 1984.
  5. ^ "Michael Moritz Will Not Seek Re-Election to Google's Board of Directors", Google press release, 22 March 2007.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference forbes midas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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