Michael Goguen is a managing partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital was an original investor in Google, Yahoo, YouTube, PayPal, Flextronics, Network Appliance, NVIDIA, Netscreen, Cisco, Oracle, and Apple Computer. Michael is the global head of Sequoia’s cleantech investment efforts, which are particularly focused on finding capital efficient cleantech businesses with strong IP. Michael... [read more]

Michael Goguen is a managing partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital was an original investor in Google, Yahoo, YouTube, PayPal, Flextronics, Network Appliance, NVIDIA, Netscreen, Cisco, Oracle, and Apple Computer. Michael is the global head of Sequoia’s cleantech investment efforts, which are particularly focused on finding capital efficient cleantech businesses with strong IP. Michael is also active in semiconductor, systems and internet businesses, and has served on the boards of over 40 Sequoia companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1996, Michael spent 10 years in various engineering, research, and product management roles at DEC, SynOptics, and Centillion, and was a director of Engineering at Bay Networks (NT). Michael also served as a Technical Chairman of the ATM Forum. Michael has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. aging partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital was an original investor in Google, Yahoo, YouTube, PayPal, Flextronics, Network Appliance, NVIDIA, Netscreen, Cisco, Oracle, and Apple Computer. Michael is the global head of Sequoia’s cleantech investment efforts, which are particularly focused on finding capital efficient cleantech businesses with strong IP. Michael is also active in semiconductor, systems and internet businesses, and has served on the boards of over 40 Sequoia companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1996, Michael spent 10 years in various engineering, research, and product management roles at DEC, SynOptics, and Centillion, and was a director of Engineering at Bay Networks (NT). Michael also served as a Technical Chairman of the ATM Forum. Michael has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

About Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital provides startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, Steve Goldman and Sujal Patel of Isilon Systems and Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Networks. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit www.sequoiacap.com.