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After concluding the market research, Swanson prepared Genentech's first business proposal by March 1976. [5] [6] It was with this proposal that Swanson pitched Genentech to Kleiner & Perkins. [6] Perkins later explained that they considered the technical risks to be enormous: "(The risk of failure was) Very high.
Perkins High School is a public high school in Perkins Township, Ohio, near Sandusky. It is the only high school in the Perkins Local School District . They are known as the Pirates and school colors are black and white with an accent of red.
Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley. [1] 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.
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Perkins was a director at Applied Materials, Compaq, Corning Glass, Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, and Philips Electronics. [3] He was chairman of Tandem Computers, from its founding in 1974 until its 1997 merger with Compaq. Perkins was also chairman of Genentech from 1976 until 1990, when it merged with Roche Holding Ltd. [4]
Leigh Marie Braswell, who joined venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins last year to focus on AI infrastructure and machine learning application founders, asserts that “agents don’t work”—at ...
Regis McKenna (born 1939? [citation needed]) was an American marketer in Silicon Valley and introduced some techniques today commonplace among advertisers.He and his firm helped market the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), Apple's first personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail computer store ...
Something Ventured is a 2011 documentary film investigating the emergence of American venture capitalism in the mid-20th century. Something Ventured follows the stories of the venture capitalists who worked with entrepreneurs to start and build companies like Apple, Intel, Genentech, Cisco, Atari, Tandem, and others, and looks at the influence of Georges Doriot.