David Sze

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, at tenth,[1] and in 2012, at fourth.[2]

David Sze
Sze in 2013
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntrepreneur & investor

Past investments

Sze has previously invested in NOCpulse (Acquired by Red Hat in 2002),[3] New Edge Networks (Acquired by EarthLink in 2006), Oodle (Acquired by QVC in 2013), Revision3 (Acquired by Discovery Communications in 2012), SGN (Acquired by MindJolt in 2011), SoftCoin (Acquired by You Technology in 2008), VUDU (Acquired by Walmart in 2010), and Digg (Acquired by Betaworks in 2012).

Biography

Career

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.

Sze joined Greylock in 2000.[4] As a result of his interest in consumer companies, Greylock moved their headquarters from Boston to Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road.[5] Sze led early investments in companies including Facebook, Pandora, LinkedIn, Workday, and Palo Alto Networks. Greylock held a 16% stake at the 2011 IPO of Facebook and a 14% stake at 2011 IPO of Pandora.[1] In 2013, Sze and Reid Hoffman announced Greylock's XIV (14th) fund of $1 billion.[6]

Personal life

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

References
  1. "Midas List 2013: The Top 10". Forbes. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013.
  2. "The Midas List Tech's Top Investors". Forbes.
  3. Rooney, Paula (15 October 2002). "Red Hat Confirms Acquisition Of NOCpulse". CRN.
  4. Shah, Semil. "A Career Of Company Building: Text Of My Discussion With David Sze". Haywire. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  5. Stone, Brad. "Venture Firm Greylock Partners Outshines Silicon Valley Rivals". BloombergBusinessweek. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  6. Primack, Dan. "Greylock raises $1 billion to find the next LinkedIn". Fortune. Archived from the original on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
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