Marc Benioff remembers entrepreneur and innovator Sandy Roberson.
A couple of years after I started Salesforce, I was invited to a special dinner to celebrate a friend’s marriage. The location was the home of Sandy Robertson, a Silicon Valley legend. I was thrilled. I’d always wanted to meet Sandy. A native midwesterner who saw the tech revolution coming years before the Wall Street establishment, he was present at the creation of Silicon Valley, shaping the financial infrastructure that fueled its remarkable rise.
In an industry of outsized personalities, Sandy kept a low profile. But there are few people in the world of tech whose career touched so many people and so many companies. Curiosity and a genuine interest in others were keys to his success in being able to spot the next big thing. It was why as a young manager in Smith Barney’s Chicago office, he had jumped at the chance to move to San Francisco. “With four hours’ notice I came to the West Coast,” he a podcaster a few years ago.
One history of Silicon Valley called Sandy “the genesis of investment banking in San Francisco.” Often overlooked is Sandy’s record as a serial entrepreneur in his own right. He founded not one but two of the four firms–the so-called Four Horsemen–that long dominated Silicon Valley banking: Robertson, Coleman, Siebel & Weisel, which became Montgomery Securities, and Robertson, Stephens & Company, which later sold to Bank of America.
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