I was just reading through the S-3 filling Google released back in February for their YouTube acquisition and was happy to see that my undergraduate alma mater, Colby College, was an investor in Sequoia Capital XI, the Sequoia fund which invested $11.5m in 05/06 and received 941,027 shares of GOOG as a result of the acquisition, which have a value today of $474m. Colby received 7,608 shares, with a present value of $3.8m, although it looks like they sold 3,608 right after the acquisition when the share price was a bit lower. Footnote 48 indicates that Hugh M. Evans III is Colby’s portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price that got them in. Good work Hugh!
Other schools in on the fund were Amherst, BU, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Grinnell, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, University of Minnesota, Rensselaer Polytech, Notre Dame, Oxford, Rochester, USC, Vanderbilt, Wellesley, Williams, and Yale. Bowdoin and Bates are noticeably absent.
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June 15, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Great find Rob!
Bates has some serious work to do in the endowment area. Looks like Colby is making some good moves even though they are, well, Colby.
Sam
June 15, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes…we have the worst investment management of any school in our class