{"id":1243,"date":"2013-05-14T17:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:46:17","slug":"midas-list-the-class-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/2013\/05\/14\/midas-list-the-class-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Midas List: The class of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
Forbes just published their Midas List of the Top 100 Venture Capital Investors. \u00a0I was listed in the top ten (number eight) ten years ago. \u00a0 That was the last time I appeared on the list. \u00a0It 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:<\/div>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/a><\/th>\nName<\/a><\/th>\nFirm<\/a><\/th>\nThe Big Deal<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\n\n

Jim Breyer<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Accel Partners<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\n

Marc Andreessen<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Andreessen Horowitz<\/td>\nSkype<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n\n

Peter Thiel<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Founders Fund<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n\n

Douglas Leone<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Sequoia Capital<\/td>\nMeraki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n\n

Reid Hoffman<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Greylock Partners<\/td>\nLinkedIn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\n

Peter Fenton<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Benchmark<\/td>\nTwitter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\n

Jim Goetz<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Sequoia Capital<\/td>\nRuckus Wireless<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\n

Scott Sandell<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

New Enterprise Associates<\/td>\nWorkday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\n

Jeremy Levine<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Bessemer Venture Partners<\/td>\nPinterest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n\n

David Sze<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n

Greylock Partners<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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. \u00a0I don’t know any of the others.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Here is the list from 2003.<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n1.<\/td>\nVinod Khosla<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n2.<\/td>\nPromod Haque<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n3.<\/td>\nL John Doerr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4.<\/td>\nLawrence Sonsini<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5.<\/td>\nTench Coxe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n6.<\/td>\nRob Soni<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n7.<\/td>\nDavid Strohm<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n8.<\/td>\nAvram Miller<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n9.<\/td>\nGeoffrey Yang<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n10.<\/td>\nPeter Morris<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forbes just published their Midas List of the Top 100 Venture Capital Investors. \u00a0I was listed in the top ten (number eight) ten years ago. \u00a0 That was the last time I appeared on the list. \u00a0It was interesting to me to see the top ten of 2013 and to realize that not one person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[666813,4269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avrams-past","category-finance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v2x-k3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/607219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}