Roger McNamee
Investor, author and musician
Roger McNamee is an American venture capitalist and musician who invested early in Facebook. He wrote Zucked, published in 2019.
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American Born 1956 in Albany, United States
About Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee was born on May 2, 1956, in Albany, New York. He studied history at Yale University and earned an MBA from Dartmouth College. Earlier in his career he co-founded Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, and led the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund. He is also a founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, which he started with U2's Bono. McNamee invested early in both Facebook and Google, and he campaigns on the harms of social media. His book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe came out in 2019. McNamee is also a touring musician. He was a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers and later played in Moonalice. In 2014 he formed a duo called the Doobie Decibel System.