Company · Venture Capital · founded 1972
Kleiner Perkins
Venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Frank Caufield and Brook Byers, based in Menlo Park, California. Its investments have included Google, Amazon, Netscape and Intuit.
Of the 3 people here linked to Kleiner Perkins, 0 are founders and 1 is still there. 2 of them also appear at Hewlett-Packard. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
3 people at Kleiner Perkins
Investor Still there
Role
Venture capitalist and chairman, 1980–now
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The John Doerr page says he joined in 1980 and stepped down from leading the firm in 2016. The Kleiner Perkins page lists him as chairman among managing partners and advisors but also among notable past members, so whether he is a current chairman is not settled.
Venture Capital · Technology 2 / 0
John Doerr
Venture capitalist; chairman of Kleiner Perkins
comfortable · well-connected · graduate degree
Advisor Past
Role
Part-time special adviser, 2011
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia says adviser from March 2011 and does not say whether it continued.
Technology 2 / 3
Meg Whitman
Former CEO, eBay
affluent · elite · graduate degree
Advisor Past
Role
Technology investment consultant, spotting investments for the firm, 1971
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The page says that after leaving HP in 1971 he formed a consulting business and the firm relied on him to spot investments; it gives no end year and no formal title.
Technology 8 / 9
Roy Clay Sr.
Led HP's first computer division; founder, ROD-L Electronics
poverty · outsider · college degree
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