Co-Founder & Managing Director at Altos Ventures · Joined 1996
View Live Interactive Profile →Ho Nam immigrated to the United States from Korea with his family at age nine, and has said that experience of starting over shaped the patient, long-horizon approach he later brought to venture investing. After a Harvey Mudd engineering degree, he began his career at Bain & Company, then moved into venture capital at Trinity Ventures - an early Starbucks investor - before earning his Stanford MBA and spending time at Silicon Graphics and Octel Communications. He co-founded Altos Ventures in 1996 with Han Kim and Anthony Lee, and the firm's defining trait under his leadership has been patience most funds don't attempt: Altos held its Roblox position for well over a decade before the company's 2021 IPO, and its early stake in Coupang was worth an implied $62.1 billion at that company's own 2021 listing. Nam has since become a public voice for what he calls venture capital's spiritual side, writing about kindness, curiosity, and service as core to long-term investing rather than just financial technique.