L. J. Sevin
Leonce John "L. J." Sevin, Jr. (August 28,{{cite web
|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/leonce-sevin-obituary?pid=175843264
|title=Leonce John Sevin Jr.|website=Legacy.com}} 1930 - September 12, 2015){{cite news
|newspaper=The Advocate (Louisiana)
|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=leonce-john-sevin-lj&pid=175843264
|title=Leonce John "L. J." Sevin Jr. (1930 - 2015)}} was described by a Dallas newspaper, when he died, as "Mostek co-founder,
venture capitalist." He was also co-founder of Sevin Rosen Funds.{{cite news
|newspaper=Dallas News
|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2015/09/24/l-j-sevin-85-mostek-co-founder-venture-capitalist
|title=L.J. Sevin, 85, Mostek co-founder, venture capitalist
|date=September 24, 2015}}
Career
Sevin co-founded Mostek when, in 1969, he left Texas Instruments;{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/28/business/business-people-new-venture-capital-firm-is-formed.html
|title=New Venure Capital Firm is formed
|author=Leonard Sloane |date=September 28, 1981}} he was the company's CEO for ten years.
With Benjamin M. Rosen, he co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds in 1981.{{cite magazine
|magazine=D Magazine (Dallas)
|url=https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2000/september/businessdallas-the-16th-floor
|title=BusinessDallas: The 16th Floor}}
Service
Early life
He was born to Leonce1940 census information says "Leon John Sevin was born about 1887. In 1940, he was 53 years old and lived in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana .. {{cite web
|url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Louisiana/Leon-John-Sevin_48lwck/amp
|title=Leon John Sevin in the 1940 Census|website=Ancestry.com}} John Sevin, Sr. and Pauline Perkins Sevin in Baton Rouge. He fought in the Korean War and, with funding from the G. I. Bill, attended and graduated from Louisiana State University, with a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering.
In 1965, while working for TI, he wrote a book, "Field Effect Transistors"{{cite book
|title=Field-Effect Transistors
|year=1965
|url=https://archive.org/details/fieldeffecttrans0000sevi
|url-access=registration
|author=Leonce J. Sevin |isbn=9780070563551}} that was translated into seven languages.