{"id":11042,"date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"harris-ex-49er-steve-young-joins-private-equity-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/harris-ex-49er-steve-young-joins-private-equity-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"Harris: Ex-49er Steve Young joins private equity firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytextragright\">Contra Costa Times &#8211; If you accept the adage that &quot;all of life is high school,&quot; then one of the charms of Silicon Valley is its ability to turn nerds like Marc Andreessen or Mark Zuckerberg into star quarterbacks on the tech gridiron.<\/p>\n<p>So it may not seem fair that former San Francisco 49ers star Steve Young &mdash; an actual quarterback, and a Hall-of-Famer to boot &mdash; didn&#8217;t just wind up as some broken-down jock somewhere telling stories about glory days. Not only has Young made a successful transition to football commentator on ESPN, but he&#8217;s quietly been a Silicon Valley player, too. He&#8217;s a co-founder of Northgate Capital, a &quot;fund of funds&quot; that invests in tech, and a former director of Foundry Networks. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/columns\/ci_12846831?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contra Costa Times &#8211; If you accept the adage that &quot;all of life is high school,&quot; then one of the charms of Silicon Valley is its ability to turn nerds like Marc Andreessen or Mark Zuckerberg into star quarterbacks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14248,14249,4565,14239,14242,14236,14237,14243,14244,14241,14246,13824,14238,14247,14245,14235,2916,14240,14250],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-adage","tag-charms","tag-co-founder","tag-contra-costa-times","tag-espn","tag-football-commentator","tag-foundry-networks","tag-glory-days","tag-gridiron","tag-hall-of-famer","tag-jock","tag-marc-andreessen","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-nerds","tag-northgate","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-silicon-valley","tag-steve-young","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}