Michael Moritz has served on Instacart’s Board of Directors since June 2013. Moritz currently serves as Senior Advisor to HRTG Partners (f/k/a Sequoia Heritage), a private investment partnership, and was previously a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Moritz has represented Sequoia on the boards of Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, LinkedIn, Kayak, Stripe and Flextronics; and younger companies such as PhenomeX (formerly Berkeley Lights), Formation Bio, Klarna and Watershed.

Prior to joining Sequoia in 1986, Moritz co-founded Technologic Partners, a technology newsletter and conference company, and was a correspondent for Time, where he was the San Francisco bureau chief. He is the author of several books, including Return to the Little Kingdom, the first major book about Apple published in 1984, and more recently LEADING with Sir Alex Ferguson, the longtime Manager of Manchester United. Michael graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1976 with a MA in History.