As a venture capitalist, Mark Stevens is a man accustomed to making things happen.As a venture capitalist Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. , Mark Stevens is a man accustomed to making things happen. The general partner of Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , located in California's Silicon Valley, helped get Yahoo and Google off the ground. Now he is giving $22 million to assist his alma mater--the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Stevens and his wife Mary are giving the money so that USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. can start an institute that will help budding engineers, scientists and other students turn their technology innovations into commercial businesses ... |
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