David Sze

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David Sze is an American entrepreneur, investor, and managing partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. Sze was named to Forbes' Midas List in 2013 and 2014.^[1][2]

Career

Excite, Inc.

Before joining Greylock Partners in 2000, Sze was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. Prior roles at Excite included general manager of Excite.com and vice president of Content and Programming for the Excite Network.^{[citation needed]}

Greylock Partners

Sze joined Greylock in 2000, as a result of his involvement in consumer companies,^[3] Greylock moved their headquarters from Boston to Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road.^[4] Sze led early investments in companies including Facebook, Pandora, LinkedIn, Workday, and Palo Alto Networks.^{[citation needed]} In 2013, Sze and Reid Hoffman announced Greylock's 14th fund of $1 billion.^[5]

Sze has previously invested in NOCpulse,^[6] New Edge Networks, Oodle, Revision3, SGN, SoftCoin , VUDU, and Digg, all of which have been acquired by larger companies.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

His sister is artist Sarah Sze.^[7] His grandfather Szeming Sze was involved in establishing the U.N.'s World Health Organization.^{[citation needed]}

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