Name
Douglas Leone
Douglas Leone
Atherton, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Cornell University | Master of Science, Columbia University | Master of Business Administration, MIT Sloan School of Management
United States
Sequoia Capital
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venture capital, Self Made
$4,100,000,000
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#29 The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2019
#568 Billionaires 2019
Doug Leone is the managing partner at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, which operates in China, India, Israel and the U.S. Leone guided Sequoia into tech investments including Medallia, Rackspace, RingCentral and ServiceNow.Leone inherited the reins from firm founder Don Valentine in the mid-1990s, alongside Michael Moritz.He started his tech career at Sun Microsystems, a firm cofounded by another billionaire venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla.An Italian immigrant, Leone looks for entrepreneurs from humble, far-flung backgrounds.
When Leone moved to New York with his family at age 11, he barely spoke a word of English.He's known for getting up at 4:30 a.m. to work out before a day at the firm.
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