Gained operating and investment experience in sales and marketing at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor companies. In 1972 he founded Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley.
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Donald J. Valentine: Early Bay Area Venture Capitalists:
Shaping the Economic and Commerce, Industry, and Labor Landscape
Valentine, Donald J. "Donald J. Valentine: Early Bay Area Venture Capitalists:
Shaping the Economic and Commerce, Industry, and Labor Landscape." Interview by Sally Smith Hughes in 2009. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2010. Interview date(s) 2009
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