Craig Johnson, Founder of Venture Law Group and VLP

Craig Johnson graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1968, spent two years teaching in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, worked with Burroughs in Pasadena as a systems computer programmer and left to start law school at Stanford, from which he graduated in 1974.

After law school, he joined the Palo Alto law firm of Wilson, Mosher & Sonsini (now Wilson, Sonini, Goodrich & Rosati) as its 14th attorney. In 1993 he left WSG&R with 13 other attorneys to start Venture Law Group, a law firm specializing in representing high technology companies.

In addition to co-founding Venture Law Group and Concept2Company, Craig was the co-founder of several other companies, including Garage Technology Ventures, Financial Engines and Virtual Law Partners. For those of us who were fortunate to have worked with Craig, this may be the only recorded interview of him by John Wallbillich on starting VLP Law Group.