Forest Baskett is a venture capitalist at NEA who brings an unusually deep technical background as a systems architect, having co-designed the original SUN workstation architecture with Andy Bechtolsheim, founded DEC's Western Research Lab where his RISC machine outperformed DEC's flagship VAX, and served as CTO at Silicon Graphics during the formative years of 3D graphics. His career spans building foundational technologies like operating systems and instruction sets to leading major infrastructure companies, giving him a rare combination of hands-on engineering experience and long-standing relationships with iconic Silicon Valley founders like Jim Clark, John Hennessy, and Bob Metcalfe.