Roelof Botha
 Roelof Botha     (venture capitalist) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 19 September 1973 | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town, Stanford University Graduate School of Business | |||||||||
| Member of | The Paypal Mafia | |||||||||
South African actuary, PayPal CFO from 2000 to 2003
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Roelof F. Botha is a South African actuary, venture capitalist and company director who is Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital.[1] Having worked with Elon Musk at PayPal from 2000 to 2003, Roelof Botha is a member of The PayPal Mafia, a suspected deep state faction.
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Board member
Roelof Botha sat on the boards of 23andMe, Cambridge Epigenetix, Mapillary, MongoDB, Jawbone, Eventbrite, Evernote, Natera, Inside.com, Square, Tokbox, Tumblr, Unity, and Xoom.
Botha also worked with AssureRX, FutureAdvisor, Instagram, Mixpanel and Mu Sigma. He previously sat on the board of directors of Meebo and YouTube before they were each acquired by Google, as well as Weebly before they were acquired by Square.[2]
Education and early career
Botha was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and at the age of six he moved to Cape Town with his parents. He was raised in Hout Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, and attended Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck. Botha earned a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1996. He worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. in Johannesburg from 1996 through 1998. He then moved to the United States, where he received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Pen picture
"Roelof Botha once dressed up as Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear to meet a new recruit called Jess Lee for Sequoia Capital. Another partner, Jim Goetz, was dressed as the other main character, Woody. They were inviting Lee to be their Jessie.[3] In this respect, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Botha is the grandson of former South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, who was known to smoke skelm cigarettes outside the Cabinet room with ANC cabinet minister Kadar Asmal whom he befriended when they both served in the Government of National Unity in the ‘90s. His grandson, Roelof, who is a UCT alumnus, decided to look for opportunities elsewhere and moved to the United States where he worked with South African billionaire Elon Musk at PayPal. He joined Sequoia Capital in 2003, became a partner and will now head one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most successful venture capitalist firms. The Financial Times reports Botha takes the reins at Sequoia with a new mandate. He is indeed another South African innovator leading the technology world to infinity and beyond."Linda van Tilburg[4]
Family
Botha's father, also named Roelof, is an economist. His uncle was the rock musician Piet Botha. His grandfather was Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, a South African politician who was the country's last foreign minister under the Apartheid government, and the first minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs under Nelson Mandela.[5]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | Switzerland World Economic Forum | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ "Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital"
- ↑ "Roelof Botha at Linkedin"
- ↑ "South African Roelof Botha, one of the world's top tech investors, once dressed up as Buzz Lightyear to present a job offer"
- ↑ "Flying SA flag high – Sequoia Capital’s new boss, Roelof Botha"
- ↑ "Dr Roelof Botha – Blending the serious matters of economics and politics with the lighter side of life"
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