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Roelof Botha, longtime investor and former steward at Sequoia Capital, has joined the board of SpaceX, a filing revealed.
The news comes less than a week after SpaceX’s historic IPO and about seven months after Botha stepped down as Sequoia steward, the legendary venture capital firm’s title for its leader. His tenure coincided with a notably difficult time in the VC firm’s history. Botha, as an investor, famously backed winners like YouTube, Instagram, Block, and MongoDB, among others.
Botha, who was on the cover of Fortune in 2024, also has a long-standing relationship with Elon Musk—SpaceX founder, Tesla CEO, and world’s richest man by a mile. The two (both originally from South Africa) first worked together in the dotcom era when Botha served as CFO at PayPal, where Musk was a cofounder. Botha ...
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