Michael Moritz

Wales native Michael Moritz got his start as a journalist at Time Magazine after emigrating to America in 1976.Moritz wrote an early biography of Steve Jobs and Apple, "The Little Kingdom," while Time's San Francisco bureau chief.After making the jump to venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, Moritz invested in companies such as Google, LinkedIn and PayPal.A diagnosis with a rare and undisclosed medical condition led Moritz to step back from a leadership role at Sequoia in 2012.His condition hasn't stopped him from working with current portfolio companies including Instacart, Klarna and Stripe.