Michael Moritz came to venture investing through journalism, not engineering or finance, having covered Silicon Valley for Time and written an early book on Steve Jobs before joining Sequoia, and he looks for founders shaped by obsession, viewing company building as a long, patient process rather than a fast bet. Raised in Wales as the child of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, he calls himself more of a dilettante than an obsessive, writing books on subjects from Apple to Alex Ferguson while judging entrepreneurs by their early-life history and drive.