Don Valentine, who founded Sequoia Capital, has died at age 87

Sequoia Capitalfounder Don Valentinepassed way at his home in Woodside, Ca., today at age 87 of natural causes.
Sequoia posted a tribute to Valentine shortly afterward, calling him “one of a generation of leaders who forged Silicon Valley.”
A native of New York, Valentine majored in chemistry at Fordham University before joining Raytheon in South California, then moving north to the Bay Area to work at Fairchild Semiconductor, where over the years, Valentine began investing his own s