Title
An evening with legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock, in conversation with John Markoff
Catalog Number
102658253
Type
Document
Description
Arthur Rock, long time technology venture capitalist, describes in an interview with John Markoff how his investing career began and his involvement helping form some of the first Silicon Valley technology companies. Rock grew up in Rochester New York and began his career on Wall Street after graduating from Harvard Business School. While at the investment firm, Hayden Stone, Rock meets and helps fund the “Traitorous Eight” engineers at Shockley Laboratories including Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore who together began Fairchild Semiconductor. Moving to Silicon Valley, Rock forms the venture capital firm of Davis and Rock and begins a series of technology venture capital investments over three decades that help form companies including Intel, Intersil, Scientific Data Systems, Teledyne and Apple Computer. Since the mid-1990’s, Rock has been an active philanthropist supporting efforts in childhood education and corporate governance.
Watch this event on CHM's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRX_kwYNNE&feature=plcp
Date
2007-05-01
Contributor
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Markoff, John, Interviewer
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Rock, Arthur, Interviewee
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Sanguedolce, Bob, Editor
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
18 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
Rock, Arthur; Markoff, John; Apple Computer, Inc.; Corporate Governance; Fairchild Semiconductor; General Transistor; Grove, Andrew S.; Harvard Business School; Hayden Stone; Intersil; Jobs, Steven, 1955-; Kleiner, Gene; Moore, Gordon; Palevsky, Max; Scientific Data Systems (SDS); Silicon Valley; Stanford University; Teledyne; Rock and Davis; Terman, Fred; Wozniak, Stephen Gary, 1950-; Xerox Corporation
Collection Title
CHM Lecture Collection
