Michael Moritz - Definition

Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley.

His Internet company investments include Google, Yahoo!, and PayPal. And Webvan, PlanetRx, and eToys. Google was a rare co-investment with John Doerr of rival venture capital firm Kleiner,Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Moritz joined Sequoia in 1986, after working as a reporter for Time magazine, writing the 1984 book "The Little Kingdom: the Private Story of Apple Computer," and co-founding Technologic Partners, a technology newsletter and conference company.

Moritz was born in Wales and educated at the University of Oxford, where he studied history. In 1978, he received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.