The most impressive people in Silicon Valley over 50
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Silicon Valley is a revolving door of startups, big tech companies, VCs, and innovation — things are always changing.
But there are those that have weathered these transitions and changes year-in and year-out, becoming the most seasoned and experienced in the tech world.
Business Insider recently released its annual Silicon Valley 100 list, highlighting the people in tech who have made a difference this past year, of which many are longtime tech veterans over the age of 50.
They've seen the boom and bust of many technological feats and can feel where the industry is going.
Read on to learn about some of the most experienced people in the business over 50.
Additional reporting by Julia Naftulin, Tanza Loudenback, and Alexa Pipia.
Edited by Alex Morrell and Matt Rosoff.
David Boies, 75
Jay Janner-Pool/Getty ImagesLawyer and board member, Theranos
Boies has provided legal counsel for a slew of troubled tech startups, ranging from Napster to Hampton Creek and now Theranos. The legal expert is defending the company from inquests by several government agencies and is considered a force to be reckoned with — he helped the US win the 1998 case United States v. Microsoft Corporation, in which the government accused Microsoft of becoming a monopoly.
David Drummond, 53
Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesSenior VP of corporate development, Alphabet
With Google's restructuring into Alphabet, Drummond was pulled up to the top to oversee mergers and acquisitions for all of Alphabet's ventures. He previously acted as Google's first outside lawyer, working with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to secure Google's earliest financing rounds. Drummond also still sits on the board of Uber.
Tom Reilly, 54
ClouderaCEO, Cloudera
Cloudera, a software company launched in 2008 that aims to help businesses — more than 20,000, in fact — make sense of huge data sets, has raised more than $1 billion in private funding. Investors include Intel, Google Ventures, and MSD Capital.
The company has been considering an initial public offering for more than a year to maintain its dominance in the market, but Reilly said in April that Cloudera would enter the public market only "when we've reached the right scale, when the business is more predictable, when there's greater visibility." They may have good reason to wait a while longer: Fidelity, another investor in the company, marked down the value of its Cloudera stake, along with stakes in several other startups, by 37% in March.
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