Technology’s Top 5 Deal Makers

By Srivats • February 17, 2007

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Core Source: Forbes

This article is about the most famous deal makers based on the profits they have made, by taking in companies to Public and sold. According to Forbes 460 Venture Backed Firms were sold for whooping $35 Billion last year. Internet is still dominating. Some of the other Tech and WEB firms that have raised hopes are Chinese Search Engine Baidu, Skype(IP company), Online Auctioneer Alibaba, Naukri (Indian Job Site).

Here is an article to get to know the Top 5 deal makers, who have made it due to their intellectual thinking and their way to capture ideas and realize them.

Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1986, he worked in a variety of positions at Time Warner and was a Founder of Technologic Partners.
Brain behind Google IPO, Pay pal and Yahoo. Bred and sold Atom Entertainment to Viacom for $200 M.
In Progress:
1. Zapos online Shoe Stores.
2. Green Dot prepaid debit cards.
3. Sugar Publishing Blog Network for gals.

L.John Doer:

Directed Amazon and Google to Nasdaq.
Leads Miasole, a solid state fuel company.
Pumps in lots of money into Bio Technology Oriented company, to fight flu pandemic and Bio Terrorism.
Into education reform and antipoverty reforms.

Andreas von Bechtolsheim
Reaped a Share worth 1.7 billion through his initial investment of $200,000.
Co found Sun Microsystem, an Electrical engineer from Germany who left Stanford PHD program.
Working as Chief Architect at Sun, for restructuring Server business.

Ram Shriram :
The only Indian in Top 5.
Former Netscape and Amazon exec became an angel investor in Google.
Invested in Mumbai’s PayMate and travel site Cleartrip.
Funded jobs site Naukri, India’s first Internet initial offering.

David Cheriton :

Professor for Computer Programming at Stanford. Interested Object-Oriented Programming from a Modeling and Simulation Perspective.
Early Adviser to Larry Page and Sergey Bring for Google.
Extensively interested in distributed interactive simulation.
Donated $21 million in Google stock to Canadian alma mater Waterloo University.

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