Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity

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Enhanced with helpful links, visit ConversationsWithTyler.com. Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am chatting with Michael Moritz. Michael is perhaps best known for his work as a venture capitalist through Sequoia. Before that he was a very active and successful journalist with several books to his credit, including The First Study of Apple and an excellent work on Alex Ferguson. of Manchester United. Michael is extremely well known in addition for his work in philanthropy. For instance, his institution, Crankstar, has been supporting the Booker Prize since twenty nineteen. He also is involved in San Francisco Standard, but most importantly from our point of view, Michael has a new and excellent book out called How slandered.

One family story of escape and exile, which I absolutely recommend to you all. Michael, welcome. Thank you for that very kind and flattering introduction. I have many questions for you in many areas. So let's start with Wales. Did the nonconformism of Methodist Wales

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