Don Valentine
4 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 3, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 20 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Rosenthal (11), Sebastian Mallaby (4), Scott Malpass (3), Mike Gitlin (1), Michael Carmen (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 15 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Don Valentine, oldest first
Jan 3, 2022 positive
Apr 11, 2022 positive
Don Valentine's intervention at Atari birthed hands-on venture investing
“So he got into the hot tub, and he imposed discipline on that chaotic business culture. He took the genius of their games, and he compounded it and married it with a determination to actually make an organization that functioned. So Atari went from chaos to a …”
Apr 11, 2022 positive
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins pioneered hands-on venture investing in the 1970s
“And these two companies, Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, improvised two things in the 19 seventies. The first was this hands-on approach. Arthur Rock had been a financier by background. He had been important in things like devising equity stock options and devisi…”
Jan 5, 2026
Capital Group housed Sequoia Capital externally to maintain focus on public markets
“Don Valentine had worked at Capital Group before founding Sequoia, and it was determined at the time that it was best housed outside of the four walls of Capital Group to keep the focus on active public management.”