# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-moritz
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:08:01.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-moritz"
name: "Michael Moritz"
slug: "michael-moritz"
description: "Sir Michael Jonathan 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."
tagline: "British businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Moritz_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.5
  momentum:             0.1094670997233249
  historical:           9.902544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ميخائيل موريتز"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz"
    title: "Michael Moritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل موریتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz"
    title: "Michael Moritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz"
    title: "Michael Moritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Moritz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Moritz"
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    title: "Michael Moritz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump