Private Equity
2 min read · 10 March 2009
2 min read · 09 March 2009
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3 min read · 05 March 2009
Back in October, we reported that Pierre Lamond was leaving Sequoia. What we didn't realize was that the 78-year-old wasn't about to retire, as we'd guessed, but was being wooed by Vinod Khosla, whose firm he is joining to make clean tech investments. WSJ has the scoop that after 27 years at Sequoia Capital, the legendary semiconductor investor will begin his new job in April. Lamond told the paper that the investments that Khosla Ventures has been making, largely in cleantech companies, “fits with the type of companies I want to build," adding that he hasn’t been an active day-to-day investor at Sequoia for the past 18 months and had “decided to phase out of Sequoia about a year ago.”
1 min read · 04 March 2009
2 min read · 03 March 2009
He’s no Madoff or Stanford, but comely actor Sean Connery may have bilked one of his close associates out of millions of dollars, too. Or not. According to the Daily Mail, next week, the Palais de Justice is summoning Connery to Geneva to address allegations that he swindled the family of Jean Rene, a once-close friend who borrowed money from Connery in the 1970s -- at a whopping 1000 percent interest rate.
2 min read · 03 March 2009
3 min read · 02 March 2009
