 Sequoia's first investment was in Atari in 1975 before the company was sold for $28 million to Warner Communications.Sequoia was one of the original investors of Apple Computer and Atari after Valentine met Steve Jobs when he was a line engineer for Atari, and in 1978, Sequoia invested $150,000 in Apple Inc. Sequoia Capital has also made early investments in companies including LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube and many others.Valentine was a chairman of NetApp and Traiana.