Occupation Venture capitalist | Name Roelof Botha Role Venture capitalist | |
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Alma mater University of Cape TownStanford Graduate School of Business Similar People Pik Botha, Keith Rabois, Jeremy Stoppelman, Chad Hurley, Peter Thiel | ||
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Roelof F. Botha (born 19 September 1973) is a venture capitalist and company director. By training, he is a qualified actuary.
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- Sequoia s roelof botha on wild rides best practices future of policing demos cutting edge security
- This week in startups roelof botha partner of sequoia capital
- Education and career
- Family
- References
Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital and currently sits on the boards of Jawbone, Eventbrite, Evernote, Mahalo, Natera, Nimbula, Square, Tokbox, Tumblr, Weebly, Unity, Whisper and Xoom. He also works with 10gen, AssureRX, FutureAdvisor, Instagram, Mixpanel and MuSigma. He previously sat on the board of directors of Meebo and YouTube before they were each acquired by Google.
On Forbes' Midas List, an annual ranking of venture capital professionals, he ranked 22nd in 2008 and 26th in 2009.
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Education and 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 with the highest GPA in the history of the program. Botha worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co., Johannesburg, from August 1996 through June 1998. He then moved to the United States, where he attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business from 1998 through 2000 and received an MBA, where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar as Stanford GSB valedictorian.
In 2000, prior to his graduation from Stanford, Botha became director of corporate development for PayPal. He moved on to vice-president of finance and was named CFO in September 2001. Botha was 28 when PayPal went public in February 2002. The company was purchased by eBay in October 2002. Botha left to join Sequoia Capital in January 2003.
At Sequoia, Botha oversaw the firm's investment in YouTube, Instagram, and Square, among others. He also helped to plan the acquisition of Xoom by PayPal. In 2017, Botha took over lead responsibility for Sequoia's US operations from Jim Goetz.
Family
Botha's father, also named Roelof, is an economist. His grandfather is Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, a former South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era. His uncle is the rock musician Piet Botha.