William Janeway, this week’s guest on Masters in Business, is known as one of the founders of the modern technology venture capital industry. Among the businesses he helped start, while working at Warburg Pincus, was BEA Systems, which connected software applications to databases across much of the Internet. The initial cash investment of $54 million turned into a payout of $6.5 billion, when BEA was bought several years later by Oracle Corp.
