Sir Michael Moritz does not pick losers. Google, YouTube and LinkedIn can be counted in the roll call of companies the Welsh billionaire and a partner at Sequoia Capital has backed; shrewd investments in their early days and testament to his eye for a winner. So, it matters then that his next great project is this: the triathlon.

We meet at the X-Bionic Sphere sports campus in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava at the Collins Cup, triathlon’s equivalent to golf’s Ryder Cup, where he stands out as virtually the only man not in Lycra.

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