#10 Jim Breyer

Jim Breyer on Forbes

Jim is the Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. Jim has been an investor in over 40 consumer internet/technology companies that have completed successful public offerings or mergers, including Facebook, Etsy, Legendary, Datalogix and Marvel Entertainment. As a lead investor and/or board member, Jim has assisted teams at over a dozen companies complete IPOs. Several of his investments have returned to investors over 100 times their cost, and over a dozen more have returned over 25 times cost.

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Jim is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Breyer Capital since July 2006. Jim has been an investor in over 30 consumer internet, media, and technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers. Several of these investments have returned over 100 times their cost and many more have returned over 25 times their cost to investors. Forbes ranked Jim #1 on its Midas List of top technology investors multiple times. Fortune also named Jim the smartest investor in technology and one of the ten smartest people in the technology industry. Vanity Fair named Jim to the New Establishment Hall of Fame and he received the Silicon Valley Lifetime Visionary Award.

Jim Breyer on Forbes

Venture investor Jim Breyer thinks the tech bubble cold burst within 24 months.

James W. "Jim" Breyer (born July 1961)[2] is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 30 companies that have gone public or completed a merger,[3] with some of these investments, including Facebook,[4] earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost.[5] On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.[1]

Six years ago Jim Breyer's hot streak in venture capital seemed at an end. Today he manages the best-performing venture fund--ever.