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Michael Moritz is a Welsh billionaire venture capitalist, philanthropist, author, and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital, wrote the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom, and authored Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler. Previously, Moritz was a staff writer at Time magazine and a member of the board of directors of Google. 

He studied at the University of Oxford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and went on to found Technologic Partners before becoming a venture capitalist in the 1980s. Moritz was named as the No. 1 venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2006 and 2007. Michael Jonathan Moritz was born to a Jewish family in Cardiff, Wales, on 12 September 1954. 

His father, Ludwig Alfred Moritz (1921–2003), was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany. A professor of Classics at Cardiff University, in the 1970s, he became its Vice Principal (Administration). His mother, Doris (née Rath; 1924-2019), also fled Nazi Germany. Moritz attended Howardian High School in Cardiff. Moritz earned a bachelor's degree in history at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1978, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron scholar.

Moritz lives in San Francisco with his wife, American novelist Harriet Heyman, and their two children. He donated to the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led super PAC opposing the re-election of Donald Trump and Republican Senators who supported him.

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