SNAPSHOT: JON STAENBERG, '82

He's Got the Ticket

Harley Soltes

WHAT OTHERS TOSS as trash, Jon Staenberg hoards as treasure. The Seattle venture capitalist has amassed more than 15,000 sports tickets—worth “maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars,” he says—since his childhood days as a Cornhuskers fan in Nebraska. “I couldn’t believe people were throwing these beautiful things away. And later, when I went into technology, I saw that tickets would eventually be obsolete,” explains Staenberg, an econ major who stayed at Stanford for a master’s in East Asian studies (’85) and an MBA (’88). His most precious sets: full tickets from every game where Barry Bonds has hit a homer, and stubs from 30 of the 104 Big Games. He’d like to establish a “stub museum,” but the 42-year-old bachelor has a more pressing goal: “I’m looking for someone to share my passion for stubs.”