Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List (5x winner 2011-2016)
★Deloitte Venture Capitalist of the Year
★Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (Obama)
★MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (1999)
★SV Forum Visionary Award (2017)
Notable Facts
→American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist
→Co-founder and Managing Director of Future Ventures
→Former partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
→Early investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Hotmail, Planet Labs, D-Wave
→Tesla board member 2006-2020, current SpaceX board member
→Graduated Stanford electrical engineering in 2.5 years, #1 in class
→Former R&D Engineer at HP with 7 chip designs fabricated
→Worked at Apple, NeXT, and Bain & Company
→Investments represent $1.7 trillion in aggregate value creation
→Known for blog 'The J Curve' and Flickr photography documenting rocket launches