Pierre Lamond Jumps Ship for Khosla Ventures
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.”
4 March 2009•1 min read
