Sand Hill Road is Silicon Valley’s Yellow Brick Road. Many wistful entrepreneurs long for the venture capital and connections that the street’s residents—including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital—have to offer.
Occasionally new firms, like Social Capital, move into the neighborhood. Started by Facebook alum Chamath Palihapitiya and colleagues in 2011, Social Capital’s vision statement lays out a clear modus operandi: “We try to live by a stringent and unapologetic set of values…that may not be for everyone, but they are for us and form the foundation of everything we do.”
