Background
Lamond was born in France and he studied Electrical Engineering at Toulouse University as an undergraduate, where he also received a Masters Degree in Physics.
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Career
He then gained another Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His first job was as an engineer with Transitron Electronics in 1957. In January 1962 he joined Gordon East. Moore"s Fairchild Semiconductor, before he left in 1967 to run that company"s spin-off, National Semiconductor, with Charles East. Sporck and Robert Widlar.
At National Semiconductor they made the-then bold move of assembling all their semiconductor components outside the United States, in Hong Kong and Singapore.
He has also been an executive at Coherent Radiation, where he was Chief Executive Officer until January 1976, and Advent Corporation, a home-entertainment equipment company, where he was Chief Executive Officer from March 1976 until May 1977. During his tenure at Sequoia Capital Lamond was chairman at Cypress Semiconductor, Microchip Semiconductor, Vitesse Semiconductor, Redback Networks, Plumtree Software, Verisity and a Director of a number of other companies.
He is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He had intended to retire in 2009, but instead joined Khosla, who specialise in energy-related companies, after being impressed with their focus on investing in research-based ventures.
While at Sequoia he acted as a mentor for the founders of YouTube.
Despite being an early investor in several social network startups, he said in 2007 that "We"re in Web 2.0 bubble in my opinion." At Khosla Ventures, Lamond is on the Board of Seeo,Soladigm,Cogenra,Seamicro (sold to AMD), Point Source Power, Skybox. Lamond is married. Lamond has two other children Patricia and Philip.
