About the Author

Patrick Krejcik is a Sand Hill Road 'insider', considering himself fortunate to have worked at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory over the past 25 years and able to witness firsthand the birth and growth of many new technologies in Stanford and Silicon Valley. Although he laughingly complains his now grown sons never followed him into physics, their own individual career paths opened his eyes to the life and intrigues of the venture capitalists who have settled on the other side of Sand Hill Road, making it the landmark location known today for both science and high finance.