The Midas List(21~30)

Bryan Roberts
Venrock
2007 Rank: NA 
Age: 41
Top life sciences VC vaults high onto list with Athenahealth, Web software that runs clinics. Shares rose 97% in first day of trading. Ran a handyman business in college at Dartmouth. Landed Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical biology from Harvard, helped lead to successes Sirna Therapeutics, Ensure Medical and XenoPort. Aspen Institute Crown Fellow also involved in International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

Roelof Botha
Sequoia Capital
2007 Rank: 23 
Age: 34
Grandson of South African dignitary quit his job as an actuary and immigrated to the U.S. twelve years ago. Earned Stanford MBA while earning paycheck as CFO of then-publicly traded PayPal. Recruited by Michael Moritz to Sequoia after PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. First to fund YouTube, founded by PayPal pals. Put in $8.5 million, got a third of the company, sold the whole thing to YouTube for $1.65 billion a year later. Brewing more consumer tech wins: Meebo (IM), Joost (TV shows online), Aliph (Jawbone headset maker), Mahalo (high touch search).

Timothy C. Draper
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
2007 Rank: 18 
Age: 49
Father and grandfather both successful venture capitalists. Co-founded own firm 22 years ago, which has backed more than 500 startups. Highlights: Hotmail and Skype, Chinese Internet portal Baidu, also Tesla (electric sports cars) and Reva (electric cars in India). In 2007 opened new offices in Bangalore and Shanghai, partnership funds in Russia, Brazil, Vietnam, Israel and London. Now in 33 offices on four continents. Quote: "Free markets are amazing." Has fun spending his hard-earned money: Owns a luxe resort in Tanzania and a baseball league in California and Arizona.

Howard Hartenbaum
Draper Richards
2007 Rank: 19 
Age: 41
Doles out venture bucks belonging to himself, Tim Draper's dad and Robin Richards Donohoe. Was a founding investor in Skype, helped write the business plan, raise more money. Got $3.1 billion from eBay for it in 2005. Two years later the online auctioneer wrote off $900 million of it. Latest projects: Shangby.com, a Web service that lets you buy from Shanghai shop owners who show their goods via live Web cam, and Zimbio, a newfangled online publishing company. Guilty pleasures: Vintage Bordeaux from his birth year: 1966. Also enjoys blowing up terrorists, monsters and buildings on his PS3 (Resistance: Fall of Man, Call of Duty 4, Warhawk).

Bruce Evans
Summit Partners
2007 Rank: 17 
Age: 48
Late-stage investor's big IPOs: Unica (enterprise marketing software), Hittite Microwave (wireless chips) and optionsXpress (online stock and options broker). Got his start selling IBM mainframe computers in Kentucky. Joined Summit Partners while at Harvard Business School. Serves on alma mater Vanderbilt's investment committee.

Peter J. Barris
New Enterprise Associates
2007 Rank: 32 
Age: 56
His big 2007 deal was telecom Neutral Tandem's November IPO. More to come: Barris is a board director at 10 of NEA's portfolio companies, including Jobfox (online job recruiting), MediaBank (media analytics), Hillcrest Labs (space-age TV), Boingo (WiFi). Also serves on boards of alma maters Northwestern and Dartmouth's Tuck School. Started in operations at GE and software product businesses Uccel and Legent. When he can escape board meetings he heads to ski home in Utah.

Henry Shaw
AsiaVest Partners
2007 Rank: 14 
Age: 53
Asia focused dealmaker still riding high from 2004 China blockbuster SMIC. Taiwan-educated entrepreneur focuses on semiconductor industry.

Ta-Lin Hsu
H&Q Asia Pacific
2007 Rank: 15 
Age: NA
Early Pacific Rim financier got start at IBM before founding H&Q's Asia division. Big payday came with 2004's public offering of SMIC. Introduced China to Starbucks: Bought controlling stake in coffee chain Mei Da Coffee, which holds the sole license to sell Starbucks in Beijing and Tianjin.

James C. Blair
Domain Associates
2007 Rank: 33 
Age: 68
Biotech investor started as engineer at RCA Corporation. After stints as investment banker at F.S. Smithers and Co. and White, Weld and Co., got involved in venture capital at Rothschild. Joined Domain Associates in 1985, never looked back. String of life science hits includes ESP Pharma, Xcel Pharmaceuticals, and Volcano Corporation.

Mark Tluszcz
Mangrove Capital Partners
2007 Rank: 20 
Age: 41
First institutional investor in Skype; realized 100x gain when it sold to eBay for $3.1 billion in 2005. Scouts consumer Internet ideas throughout Europe from home base in Luxembourg. Recent investments: real estate listing site Properazzi and Nimbuzz, a Skype-style cell phone service. Has his eye on technology in Russia and professional blogging. Mangrove worries the U.S. faces an imminent recession that will send aftershocks across Europe; looking for entrepreneurs with the foresight to plan for that.