Silicon Valley banker sensed technology’s potential early and underwrote companies that became household names
Sanford “Sandy” Robertson, the pioneering Silicon Valley financier whose initial public offerings helped turn a sleepy Northern California peninsula into a global economic powerhouse, has died at age 93.
Instead, he believed the real action was 30 miles south of the city on the peninsula where the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Intel were ushering in the computing era. “I realised the economic base of the city was the valley,” he later said. In 1968, Robertson broke off from Smith Barney to co-found Robertson, Colman and Siebel, a firm established to do trading and banking strictly for the technology sector. Thomas Weisel, another promising San Francisco banker, joined a few years later.
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