Douglas Leone

Partner, Sequoia Capital

$12.76B

$161.3M (1.3%)

as of 10/09/26

About Douglas Leone

Doug Leone is ranked at No. 8 on the 2026 Midas List, his 21st appearance.

Leone ran Sequoia from 1996 to 2022 as its "senior steward." He returned to investing again in 2026 in a new role as the chairman of the storied venture fund.

During his tenure, Leone guided Sequoia into tech investments including Rackspace, RingCentral, ServiceNow, Nubank and Wiz, which was acquired by Google for $32 billion in March 2026.

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

Menlo Park, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

07/04/57 (age 69)

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

213K

troy ounces of gold

196K

median U.S. household

128K

median U.S. income

0.255%

U.S. credit card volume

0.051%

GDP of the United States

0.038%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

When Leone moved to New York with his family at age 11, he barely spoke a word of English.

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

NYSE | NU-US

Nu Holdings

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