venture capitalist
Britishnoun
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Michael Brown, a venture capitalist and an early leader of the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley branch, the Defense Innovation Unit, gives the department an “incomplete” grade on its transformation efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The tech leaders included Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive; Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder; Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist; Yann LeCun, a computer scientist; and Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The billionaire venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures sat down with me in Menlo Park, Calif., for the latest episode of The WSJ Money Interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The incorporation documents for HAL9001 were signed by the venture capitalist Roman Sobachevskiy.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
De Soto was a novel figure: half warrior, half venture capitalist.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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