Douglas Leone net worth
Douglas Leone Net Worth: Douglas Leone is an Italian-American businessman and entrepreneur with a net worth of $3 billion. Douglas Leone is a self-made billionaire who makes money from venture capital. Leone immigrated from Genoa, Italy, and his first jobs were cleaning toilets and repairing boats.
He holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Columbia University, a master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. Leone has been a partner at Sequoia Capital since 1993. He focuses on Internet, software and communications investments. Leone was ranked #4 on Forbes Magazine’s Midas List in 2013. Forbes also included him in the 2001 list of the top ten US venture capitalists. He is responsible for Sequoia’s international expansion in China and India. Before working for Sequoia Capital, he held sales and sales management positions at Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Prime Computer. He serves on the boards of CafePress.com, Birst, Medallia, Hayneedle, RingCentral, ServiceNow, MedExpress and Zirmed. He is also involved with Aruba, Meraki, Arbor/Hyperion, Netezza and Rackspace. Sequoia has invested in WhatsApp and LinkedIn. Douglas is married to Patty Leone and they have four children.
