Primary Job Title Operating Partner Primary Organization 
Benchmark
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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"Steve has been active in venture capital for nearly 20 years. He currently serves as Benchmark's operating partner, running the day-to-day operations of the firm and acting as counsel to the firm. He joined Benchmark in 1999 after spending four years as a partner with Gunderson Dettmer.
Prior to co-founding Gunderson Dettmer in 1995,
Steve was an attorney with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. His practice focused on the representation of private and public emerging growth companies, which encompassed a variety of private financing transactions, public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve also represented a number of venture capital firms in connection with their formation and fundraising.
Steve is co-author of Formation and Financing of Emerging Growth Companies, published by Glasser LegalWorks.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and U.C. Berkeley in 1983. (Source: Benchmark)
