Douglas Leone

Sequoia

$10.95B

$57.2M (-0.5%)

as of 04/20/26

About Douglas Leone

Doug Leone ran VC firm Sequoia from 1996 to 2022.

During his tenure, Leone guided Sequoia into tech investments including Rackspace, RingCentral, ServiceNow, Nubank, and Wiz, which Google offered to acquire for $32 billion in March 2025.

He inherited the reins from firm founder Don Valentine in the mid-1990s, alongside Michael Moritz.

He started his tech career at Sun Microsystems, a firm cofounded by another billionaire venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla.

An Italian immigrant, Leone looks for entrepreneurs from humble, far-flung backgrounds.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Venture capital

Residence

Atherton, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

07/04/57 (age 68)

Number of children

Education

Master of Science, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Cornell University; Master of Business Administration, MIT Sloan School of Management

Self-made

self-made

Douglas Leone’s fortune is worth

183K

troy ounces of gold

168K

median U.S. household

110K

median U.S. income

0.219%

U.S. credit card volume

0.044%

GDP of the United States

0.032%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

He's known for getting up at 4:30 a.m. to work out before a day at the firm.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | ABNB-US

Airbnb, Inc

NASDAQ | GOOGL-US

Alphabet

NASDAQ | AMZN-US

Amazon

NASDAQ | AMPL-US

Amplitude

NASDAQ | BKNG-US

Booking Holdings

NASDAQ | DASH-US

DoorDash, Inc

NASDAQ | FRSH-US

Freshworks

NASDAQ | GOOG-US

Google Inc. (Cl C)

NYSE | LNKD-US

LinkedIn Corp

NASDAQ | META-US

Meta Platforms

NASDAQ | PANW-US

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

NYSE | RAX-US

Rackspace Hosting Inc.

NYSE | RNG-US

RingCentral

NYSE | NOW-US

ServiceNow

NYSE | SNOW-US

Snowflake

NYSE | U-US

Unity Software

NASDAQ | ZM-US

Zoom Video Communications