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American entrepreneur who founded Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon, and myCFO — the first person to found three separate billion-dollar companies — providing the risk capital and entrepreneurial credibility that enabled Marc Andreessen to launch Netscape.
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Eventbrite and Xoom, early PayPal investor, and angel investor in Twitter, Airbnb, and Pinterest.
American computer programmer and co-founder of Microsoft who read about the Altair 8800 in a magazine and convinced Bill Gates to call MITS offering a BASIC interpreter they hadn't yet written — founding Microsoft and the personal computer software industry.
American technology executive and angel investor who sold Junglee to Amazon in 1998 and subsequently became one of Google's original four investors — one of the most consequential angel investments in history.
Chinese-American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of DoorDash, the on-demand food delivery platform, who led it from a Stanford incubator to the dominant US food delivery service through relentless operational discipline.