Moritz, the most prominent partner at Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firm, made at least ten investments last year, according to Venture Capital Journal.
The Sequoia Capital VC, who might have been expected to rest on his laurels after the stratospheric return on his Google investment, put at least $230m to work, the Thomson Financial database shows. Why? Moritz, unlike John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, doesn't seem inclined to save the world just yet. If the investor, a former journalist, is to establish himself as a Valley legend, he'll need a follow-up after the grand slams of Yahoo and Google.
But there could be a simpler explanation for Moritz's hyperactivity: most investors struggle to win the approval of fellow partners; Moritz's belief in Larry Page and Sergey Brin's search engine provided so much of the firm's recent returns that no other Sequoia partner dares question his investment ideas.
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