Elevation Partners
Roger McNamee is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners. Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, the leading private equity fund focused on technology and related growth industries. He was a member of Silver Lake's Investment Committee and was involved in all aspects of that partnership. Prior to Silver Lake, Roger was a co-founder of Integral Capital Partners. Integral is a leading technology investor in late-stage venture and public company investments. Founded in 1991 by Roger, John A. Powell, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Integral pioneered the crossover investment strategy, which seeks maximum capital appreciation by making investments in expansion-stage private companies and growth-stage public companies in the technology and life science industries.
Prior to founding Integral, Roger managed the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund and co-managed the T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, which was at that time the largest emerging growth fund in the U.S. Roger serves as a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, an overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and a director of the Rex Foundation. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
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Last Updated: Tue, Apr 18, 2006
| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Successful Entrepreneurs | Roger McNamee | Elevation | 01:20 | 04/2005 |
| Video | Self-Awareness | Roger McNamee | Elevation | 00:52 | 04/2005 |
| Video | Family is Part of Your Startup | Roger McNamee | Elevation | 00:45 | 04/2005 |
Roger McNamee, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, believes that successful entrepreneurs are driven by compelling ideas. He goes on to say that along with great ideas, skills, personality and the determination to execute them, having a plan greatly increases one's chances of success.
McNamee advises that it is important for entrepreneuers to patiently assess what one is good/bad at doing and what are the right opprtunities. The time spent on this self-awareness process is crucial to getting things right in a business, he says.
When McNamee says, 'Your most important partner in a business is your spouse,' he believes that when working in a partnership, partners assimilate each other's passions, issues, and interests. He also says that life is all about balancing one's career, family and bank account and all three are necessary for entrepreneurship.