The desire to give something back
US venture capitalist Bill Walsh said he was attracted to the American Ireland Fund because “when you have a surplus of this world's good you want to do something".
US venture capitalist Bill Walsh said he was attracted to the American Ireland Fund because “when you have a surplus of this world's good you want to do something".
Like many of the other high-profile businessmen involved in the fund, Walsh, general partner of Sequoia Associates, a private Californian investment firm, was recruited at a fundraising dinner.
“It [the fund] is a very convivial and collegial group of people who tend to be ...