With almost fifty years of business experience, Paul Wythes is one of America’s most successful as well as one of its first venture capitalists. In 1964 he founded and helped build his firm, Sutter Hill Ventures, just five years after he graduated from the Stanford Business School. Sutter Hill Ventures today is the oldest venture firm on the west Coast and has nurtured many of the valley’s most successful companies. Paul Wythes also helped found the National Venture Capital Association in 1972.
