After Breyer left for Harvard Business School he was determined to get back to the Valley. He got turned down by Kleiner and Sequoia. He interviewed with Larry Ellison and Tom Siebel at Oracle. Ellison asked him what other jobs he was considering. Breyer said he was seriously thinking about venture capital. Ellison said, “Jim, you come work for me and Oracle for ten years and you’ll be your own venture capitalist.” Instead Breyer went to Accel, a two-man venture shop comprised of Citicorp alums Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz.