Pierre Lamond
Pierre R Lamond (born 1930) is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, who has specialised in semiconductors, systems and cleantech. He was a partner at Sequoia Capital based in Menlo Park, California from 1981 until he left to join Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures as General Partner in March 2009.[1]
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"Typically our style of investment is to invest early. First, we try to identify potentially profitable sectors of the market before everyone else does. At that point, we can get involved in the seed and first financing rounds, become active at the board level and participate in establishing strategy and start recruiting a management team."
—Lamond in 1999.[2]
Lamond was born in France and he studied Electrical Engineering at Toulouse University as an undergraduate, where he also received a Masters Degree in Physics. He then gained another Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His first job was as an engineer with Transitron Electronics in 1957.[3] In January 1962 he joined Gordon E. Moore's Fairchild Semiconductor, before he left in 1967 to run that company's spin-off, National Semiconductor, with Charles E. Sporck and Robert Widlar.[3][4]:259 At National Semiconductor they made the-then bold move of assembling all their semiconductor components outside the US, in Hong Kong and Singapore.[4]:272 He has also been an executive at Coherent Radiation, where he was CEO until January 1976, and Advent Corp., a home-entertainment equipment company, where he was CEO from March 1976 until May 1977.[5][6][7] During his tenure at Sequoia Capital Lamond was chairman at Cypress Semiconductor, Microchip Semiconductor, Vitesse Semiconductor, Redback Networks, Plumtree Software, Verisity and a Director of a number of other companies.[8] He is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He had intended to retire in 2009, but instead joined Khosla, who specialise in energy-related companies, after being impressed with their focus on investing in research-based ventures.[1][9] While at Sequoia he acted as a mentor for the founders of YouTube.[10] Despite being an early investor in several social network startups, he said in 2007 that "We're in Web 2.0 bubble in my opinion."[11] At Khosla Ventures, Lamond is on the Board of Seeo,Soladigm,Cogenra,Seamicro (sold to AMD), Point Source Power, Skybox.
Lamond is married. His son David is President of Lamond Capital Partners. Lamond has two other children Patricia and Philip.[12]
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