![]() A longtime guitarist who still plays some fifty shows a year, he has toured for more than two decades with an evolving cast of venture capitalists, technologists, and career musicians such as Pete Sears, of Jefferson Starship. If the founders of Big Tech were a family, McNamee might be its eccentric uncle. In the early two-thousands, McNamee helped create a private-equity firm, Elevation Partners, which invested two hundred and ten million dollars in Facebook in 20, two years before it went public. The businesses in Silver Lake’s portfolio now produce two hundred and thirty billion dollars in annual revenue and employ three hundred and seventy thousand people. He invested in those companies, too, and a few years later he co-founded Silver Lake Partners. In 1991, he partnered with the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins, where he listened to pitches for Netscape and Amazon. ![]() ![]() He invested in Electronic Arts (now a leading video-game maker) and Sybase (a pioneering database firm), among others, eventually running one of the most successful funds in the industry. The personal-computer revolution was just beginning. ![]() ![]() Roger McNamee started his career in 1982, as a twenty-six-year-old analyst at the investment firm T. Rowe Price. ![]()
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