Forbes just published their Midas List of the Top 100 Venture Capital Investors.  I was listed in the top ten (number eight) ten years ago.   That was the last time I appeared on the list.  It was interesting to me to see the top ten of 2013 and to realize that not one person on the 2003 made it to that list. Here are the members of the class of 2013:

Rank	Name	Firm	The Big Deal
1	Jim Breyer	Accel Partners	Facebook
2	Marc Andreessen	Andreessen Horowitz	Skype
3	Peter Thiel	Founders Fund	Facebook
4	Douglas Leone	Sequoia Capital	Meraki
5	Reid Hoffman	Greylock Partners	LinkedIn
6	Peter Fenton	Benchmark	Twitter
7	Jim Goetz	Sequoia Capital	Ruckus Wireless
8	Scott Sandell	New Enterprise Associates	Workday
9	Jeremy Levine	Bessemer Venture Partners	Pinterest
10	David Sze	Greylock Partners	Facebook

I am glad to see my old friends, Jim Breyer and Doug Leone made the list as well as Marc Andreesen whom I meet the week he joined Jim Clark at Netscape.  I don’t know any of the others.

Here is the list from 2003.

	1.	Vinod Khosla
	2.	Promod Haque
	3.	L John Doerr
	4.	Lawrence Sonsini
	5.	Tench Coxe
	6.	Rob Soni
	7.	David Strohm
	8.	Avram Miller
	9.	Geoffrey Yang
	10.	Peter Morris