If you are interested in tracking the Who’s who in the Technology Dealmakers ecosystem, take a look at the 2006 Forbes Midas List. Not surprisingly, 7 of the top 10 were involved in some way in Google. Of note: Mike Moritz, the top Midas touch of this year and backer of Google, Yahoo and Paypal, ventures that Consumer Tech fad is played out.
The top 10:
- Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital)
- L John Doerr (Kleiner Perking Caufield and Byers)
- Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures)
- Andreas von Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems)
- Michael Grimes (Morgan Stanley)
- David Cheriton (Stanford Unversity)
- Timothy Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
- Lawrence Sonsini (Wilson Sonsini)
- David Marquardt (August Capital)
- David Katsujin Chao (Doll Capital Management)
Two firms have 4 nominees in the list this year: Bessemer Venture Partners (Robert Stavis, Felda Hardymon, Robert Goodman, David Cowan) and New Enterprise Associates (Ryan Drant, Scott D Sandell, Peter Morris , Sigrid Van Bladel).
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