Kleiner, Eugene

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Name (Latin)
Kleiner, Eugene
Date of birth
1923-05-12
Date of death
2003-11-20
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 207069747
Wikidata: Q1261225
Library of congress: no2005055259
Sources of Information
  • Abrams, R.M. The successful business plan, c2003:t.p. (foreword by Eugene Kleiner)

Wikipedia description:

Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley. He was one of the original founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, part of the Traitorous Eight, and Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon.com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, Sun Microsystems and Tandem Computers.

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