Mike Moritz To Leave Google Board Of Directors

Michael Moritz, a Sequoia Capital general partner and Google board member since 1999, is leaving Google’s board by not seeking re-election on May 10, 2007. There are many reasons being passed around for why Moritz is leaving, including that he is being blamed for the “YouTube nightmare” (Sequoia was the lead investor in YouTube, and Mike may have been influential in the deal), that he has too much of a conflict of interest between other Sequoia investments Google might acquire or compete with, but ultimately, it seems like his time had just come, and that was that.
In other Google culture, here’s former President Jimmy Carter speaking at Google Atlanta’s open house:

Read more about it at Search Engine Land. Am I the only person who hears Carter’s name and immediately hears Andy Kaufman doing an impression?
Oh, and Google’s Kirkland office did their first Dog Day. Check out […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg