Kevin Harvey is a founding partner at Benchmark who built and sold two software companies before becoming a VC, including a college-started company acquired by Apple, and led Benchmark's investment in MySQL where he served as board chairman through its $1B acquisition by Sun. He also founded Rhys Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he applies the same analytical approach he uses in technology investing to experimenting with hillside plantings, dense spacing, and site selection in winemaking. Kevin Harvey is a founding partner at Benchmark who built and sold two software companies before becoming a VC, including a college-started company acquired by Apple, and led Benchmark's investment in MySQL where he served as board chairman through its $1B acquisition by Sun. He also founded Rhys Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he applies the same analytical approach he uses in technology investing to experimenting with hillside plantings, dense spacing, and site selection in winemaking.