1. Roger McNamee was born on May 2,1956 and is an American businessman, investor, venture capitalist and musician.
21 Facts About Roger McNamee
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Roger McNamee is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners.
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Roger McNamee was born on May 2,1956, in Albany, New York.
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Roger McNamee was the president of the Albany chapter of the Urban League.
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When Roger McNamee was 12 years old, he protested against the Vietnam War, and volunteered for Eugene McCarthy's campaign for president.
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Roger McNamee has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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In 1991 Roger McNamee co-founded Integral Capital Partners with John Powell and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins to invest in expansion stage private companies and growth-stage public companies.
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In 1999, Roger McNamee was one of the founding partners of leveraged buyout firm Silver Lake Partners.
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In 2004, Roger McNamee co-founded Elevation Partners along with a number of other investors including U2 frontman Bono.
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Roger McNamee played in the band Flying Other Brothers from 1997 to 2006.
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Roger McNamee appeared in the 2021 award-winning documentary, The Tale of the Dog, which chronicles the outsized historical impact that the Denver music venue, The Family Dog Denver, had on the changing city.
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Roger McNamee became expert on Facebook by using it to promote.
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Roger McNamee is the co-writer of the Moonalice song "It's 4:20 Somewhere".
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Roger McNamee has expressed his support for tougher antitrust enforcement policies in the US and internationally, particularly as it relates to leading technology firms, supporting the antitrust enforcement actions by the DOJ and the FTC led by Lina Khan under President Biden's administration which has taken a tougher stance on blocking anticompetitive mergers.
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Bill Gates wrote in his book The Road Ahead: "Roger McNamee was a great sounding board for many of the ideas I wrote about".
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Mark Zuckerberg said Roger McNamee was "emphatic" that Facebook not be sold; Zuckerberg stated he "clearly cared about building something long-term and about the impact of the things we build as opposed to just making money in the short term," advice that Portfolio.
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Roger McNamee has been heavily involved in the creation of the Haight Street Art Center which celebrates San Francisco's tradition of music-related poster art.
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Roger McNamee donated $1 million to help fund the center, and has committed an additional $1 million to help keep it operating.
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An early investor in Facebook, Roger McNamee became very critical of its impact on society and democracy, as expressed in his op-eds for USA Today and The Guardian.
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On 25 September 2020, Roger McNamee was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook.
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Roger McNamee wrote the book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, published by Penguin Press February 5,2019, which was listed as a New York Times Best Seller February 24,2019.