By all accounts it was the perfect Silicon Valley wedding. The venue was beautiful—a historic mansion in tony Woodside. Equally beautiful were the people. Matthew Sonsini, son of Larry Sonsini, chief rainmaker at the Valley's most powerful law firm and one of the tech industry's sav-viest dealmakers, was marrying Lisa Sobrato, the daughter of a prominent Valley real estate developer. "Just about anybody who was anybody in Silicon Valley came to this wedding," says LSI Logic CEO Wilfred Corrigan, who attended. Indeed, the guest list for the affair last year included Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, legendary venture capitalist Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital, and Ken Oshman, founder of Rolm—all clients of the groom's father.
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