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Don Valentine

A comprehensive compilation of Don Valentine's writings, articles, interviews, and talks.

PresentationsApril 2004Interview with Don Valentine, 2004 April 21 (Silicon Genesis oral history)October 2007Room to Read | John Wood & Don Valentine | Talks at GoogleOctober 2008Interview with Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital (Something Ventured raw footage)October 2010Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital: "Target Big Markets"September 2013Silicon Valley Deconstructed With Tom Perkins and Don Valentine | Disrupt SF 2013November 2014NetApp Oral History Panel (Dan Warmenhoven, Dave Hitz, Don Valentine)Articles1977Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer2000Letter #72: Don Valentine (2000) - 'Real VCs Help Build Great Companies'Interviews2009Donald T. Valentine, oral history - Early Bay Area Venture Capitalists: Shaping the Economic and Business LandscapeNovember 2014Cisco oral history panel: John Morgridge and Don Valentine (catalog record)The Apple story - Don Valentine on Sequoia's investment in Apple
Key Articles About Don Valentine2000Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories — Udayan Gupta, Harvard Business School Press2019Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital Founder, Dies at 87 — Erin Griffith, The New York Times
Key Books About Don Valentine2022The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future — Sebastian Mallaby, Penguin Press2017Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age — Leslie Berlin, Simon & Schuster