McNamee holds a bachelor of arts from Yale University and a master of business administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.Ĭontact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Roger McNamee and other top speakers and celebrities.Īll American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. He has served as a technical adviser for several seasons of the HBO TV show Silicon Valley, and raised the money that created the Wikimedia Foundation.
Along with his other books, McNamee also plays bass and guitar in the bands Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System. In addition to Zucked, McNamee is also the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Volumes 1-9. In 2004, he launched Elevation Partners – an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and technology – which he co-founded with U2’s Bono. McNamee later co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund focused on technology businesses, in 1999. Rowe Price Associates in 1982, and in 1991, he launched Integral Capital Partners – the first crossover fund – in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Morgan Stanley & Co. In 2011, he gave a TEDx Talk called “6 Ways to Save the Internet,” in which he predicted that in ten years, we would interact with the internet in completely different ways. In recent months, McNamee has spoken publicly about the dangers of Facebook on platforms such as NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and more. Through his writing, McNamee hopes to raise consciousness about responsible practices that he believes tech companies should adopt as the Internet landscape continues to change. An early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and an investor in Facebook, McNamee’s experience with the company is detailed in his book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.
A Silicon Valley investor for over 35 years, Roger McNamee is a tech venture capitalist with several successful ventures to his name.
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