The courtside fan who pushed Toronto Raptors player Kyle Lowry during the third game in the 2019 NBA Finals was a Silicon Valley billionaire.
spent two years on the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft followed by five years as a salesman at semiconductorIntel Corp. before joining Sequoia Capital in 1989 as an associate. He became a partner four years later. In his two decades at Sequoia, the storied VC firm invested in several tech titans, including Google, PayPal and LinkedIn. Stevens specialized in semiconductors, networking systems and software.
Stevens is currently on the boards of Nvidia, a chip maker, Second Spectrum, a sports-video-focused machine learning startup, and Innovium, a chip maker for data centers. He is also on the Board of Trustees at University of Southern California and on the Dean's Advisory Board at Harvard Business School.
Stevens has signed the Giving Pledge, created by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to get America’s wealthiest individuals to give away more than half of their wealth to charity. S-Cubed Capital also manages the family’s philanthropy, with focus areas in education, environment and research universities..
At the time of the deal, executive chairman of the Warriors Peter Guber had only positive things to say about the venture capitalist. “Mark will prove to be a tremendous asset to our organization as we strive to become one of the model franchises in professional sports,” Guber said in a press release. “We’ve managed to build a strong and well-rounded ownership group in which each individual contributes to our success, and Mark is no exception. He’s an ideal fit.
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