Don Valentine: Gandfather of VCDon Valentine founded Sequoia in 1972, before the terms “Silicon Valley” and “venture capital” had been coined. His original investments includes Apple, Atari, Oracle, Cisco, etc. Prior to founding Sequoia Capital, Don served as a sales and marketing executive at Fairchild Semiconductor for seven years before he went on to establish National Semiconductor. Don obtained his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fordham University in 1954.Why sequoia successfulWe ...