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David Sze
Sze in 2013
Born (1966-03-08) March 8, 1966 (age 58)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations

David Sze is an American entrepreneur, investor, and managing partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. Sze was named to Forbes' Midas List in 2013 and 2014.[1][2]

Career

Excite, Inc.

Before joining Greylock Partners in 2000, Sze was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. Prior roles at Excite included general manager of Excite.com and vice president of Content and Programming for the Excite Network.[citation needed]

Greylock Partners

Sze joined Greylock in 2000, as a result of his involvement in consumer companies,[3] Greylock moved their headquarters from Boston to Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road.[4] Sze led early investments in companies including Facebook, Pandora, LinkedIn, Workday, and Palo Alto Networks.[citation needed] In 2013, Sze and Reid Hoffman announced Greylock's 14th fund of $1 billion.[5]

Sze has previously invested in NOCpulse,[6] New Edge Networks, Oodle, Revision3, SGN, SoftCoin , VUDU, and Digg, all of which have been acquired by larger companies.[citation needed]

Personal life

His sister is artist Sarah Sze.[7] His grandfather Szeming Sze was involved in establishing the U.N.'s World Health Organization.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "The Midas List Tech's Top Investors". Forbes.
  2. ^ "Midas List 2013: The Top 10". Forbes. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013.
  3. ^ Shah, Semil. "A Career Of Company Building: Text Of My Discussion With David Sze". Haywire. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  4. ^ Stone, Brad. "Venture Firm Greylock Partners Outshines Silicon Valley Rivals". BloombergBusinessweek. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  5. ^ Primack, Dan. "Greylock raises $1 billion to find the next LinkedIn". Fortune. Archived from the original on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  6. ^ Rooney, Paula (15 October 2002). "Red Hat Confirms Acquisition Of NOCpulse". CRN.
  7. ^ Armitstead, Claire; @carmitstead (2023-05-14). "Artist Sarah Sze: 'We've created a system that can destroy us. That's new'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
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