Rajeev Motwani, Early Google Advisor And Silicon Valley Luminary, Has Passed Away
TechCrunch Jun 05 09Tragic news today for the Silicon Valley community. Rajeev Motwani, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and the Stanford professor perhaps best known for serving as the advisor for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google, has passed away. Rajeev was an ardent supporter of Silicon Valley startups, investing and mentoring many of them while continuing his research at Stanford University. With investments in companies that included PayPal and Google, he saw an overwhelming amount of success. And through it all he has continued to give back to the community though his mentorship, investments, and his time at Stanford, where he has continued to teach as recently as last semester. Full story...
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