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Read Capital (Dealmaker Apr 2007)

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Read Capital: Don Valentine talks about his favorite start-up

Don Valentine is the founding partner of venture-capital powerhouse Sequoia Capital, the original source of seed capital for Apple, Cisco, Google and YouTube. One of the ventures he is proudest of, though, isn’t an iPod maker, a networking conglomerate or a trailblazing dot-com. It’s Room to Read, a non-profit organization that partners with local communities to build schools and libraries all across the developing world. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Roxanne Downer

April 30, 2007 at 12:11 am