Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz is Chairman of Sequoia Capital. He joined the firm in 1986 and has served on the boards of a variety of companies from inception to their emergence as global, publicly traded companies, including Flextronics, Google, PayPal and Yahoo! He is currently a director of [24]7 Customer, 6WunderKinder, GameFly, Green Dot, Instacart, Klarna, LinkedIn, POPSUGAR, Skyscanner, Strava, Stripe, Thanx and The Melt.

Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Moritz co-founded Technologic Partners, and was a correspondent for TIME, where he was the magazine’s San Francisco bureau chief. While at TIME, he wrote two books: “Going For Broke, The Chrysler Story,” and “The Little Kingdom, the Private Story of Apple Computer.”

Moritz graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a master of arts degree in history. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the American novelist Harriet Heyman.