Roelof Botha
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PayPal...employees at PayPal. YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. Roelof Botha, the former CFO of PayPal, is a partner of Sequoia Capital who sits on YouTube's board of directors. Room 9 Entertainment, which produced the movie Thank You for... In this article: PayPal, EBay, Stamps.com, Billpoint, Confinity, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, United States, and Luxembourg |
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New York Times | November 05, 2009
Can Eventbrite Shine in Ticketmaster's World?
...had raised its first round of venture capital: $6.5 million from Sequoia Capital. The partner Roelof Botha - the man who backed YouTube - is becoming a director. The site gives organizers free tools to create Web pages for their event, issue...
In this article: Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, XOOM, Ronald Dellums, Oakland, Lien, Venture capital, and DVD
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Valleywag | April 18, 2008
Marc Andreessen's egg-shaped head, CEO's rack distract Fast Company writer from Ning's vanishingly small business [Journalist Math]
...by people with something to sell. Supporting Andreessen's argument are Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson and Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha, both of whom make the argument for compound growth. Wilson is an investor in Twitter; Botha...
In this article: Ning, Marc Andreessen, Fast Company, Adam Penenberg, Gina Bianchini, Sequoia Capital, Fred Wilson, Small business, Union Square Ventures, and Netscape
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Bits: Joost Reinvents Itself - Again
...in venture capital from big-name investors including Viacom, CBS, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha, who also led the firm's YouTube investment. But the company started shrinking even before the latest cuts. When Mr....
In this article: Joost, Hulu, Cisco Systems, Revenue, Sequoia Capital, Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube, and Google
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Business news and Fortune 500 - FORTUNE Magazine | September 18, 2007
Facebook pledges $10M in grants for developers
...Esther Dyson boots up her laptop in the front row. Sequoia Capital's 30-something star Roelof Botha (of YouTube (GOOG) investing fame) rolls up with his bluetooth earbud blinking. We're minutes away from Day Two here at TechCrunch40 in...
In this article: Facebook, Cnnmoney.com, Michael Arrington, TechCrunch40, Filed, Venture capital, Quicken, and PayPal
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SEO Book.com - | April 06, 2009
Advertising That Resonates
Notice how he integrates outside people into the internal processes of the company. Roelof Botha, the guy behind PayPal and YouTube points out: You're already slicing up the niche and targeting via keywords. But if you're buying...
In this article: Google, Zappos, YouTube, E mail, PayPal, Amazon.com, Twitter, and Facebook
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Forbes.com News | August 16, 2008
Billionaires: The Next Generation - Forbes.com
...because of Tiger's lucrative endorsement deals. (See "Tiger's Next Trophy: Billionaire.") Deal maker Roelof Botha is another to keep an eye on. The 34-year-old venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital hit a grand slam with an early...
In this article: Michael Birch, EBay, SpaceX, Bebo, Tiger Woods, Tyler Perry, and PayPal
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Wikipedia | October 20, 2009
Chad Hurley
...received a bonus which he used to finance their future venture. Another link that helped their future venture was their connection to Roelof Botha, the former PayPal CFO. YouTube was founded by Hurley, Chen , and Karim , supposedly to...
In this article: YouTube, PayPal, Steve Chen, Google, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, EBay, Twin Valley High School, and Elverson
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New York Times | March 30, 2008
Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat - New York Times
...capital firm Sequoia Capital. "At the end of the day, we are a social species. " Mr. Botha, one of the original backers of YouTube, is behind live Web companies like TokBox, a year-old start-up that lets people conduct face-to-face...
In this article: Facebook, Meebo, Venture capital, YouTube, MySpace, and Electronic Arts
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International Herald Tribune | October 16, 2007
Dot-com fever stirs sense of deja vu - International Herald Tribune
...often little more than sleight of hand. "The environmental factors are much different than they were eight years ago," said Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia Capital and an early backer of YouTube. "The cost of doing business has declined...
In this article: Yahoo, Revenue, YouTube, EBay, Google, Right Media, Tim O'Reilly, Skype, and Silicon Valley
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Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary.
He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated first in his class from Stanford Business School in 2000, prior to which he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Johannesburg. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics, where he graduated with the highest GPA in the history of the program. He became the youngest actuary in South African history soon after graduating.
Botha is the grandson of the former South African Foreign Affairs Minister of the same name who was also known as Roelof 'Pik' Botha. Pik Botha, a former South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era. He was considered to be a liberal - at least in comparison to others in the then-ruling National Party.
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