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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.
From left to right: Gordon Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last (1960) The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
Sreenivasan is the Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, and a professor of physics and mathematics professor at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Kleiner (Hebrew: קליינר) is a German or Jewish surname, meaning "smaller": Alfred Kleiner, Swiss physicist; Marianne Kleiner, Swiss politician; Bruce Kleiner, American mathematician; Krista Arrieta Kleiner, Filipino-American TV actress/singer and host; Dick Kleiner, Hollywood columnist; Eugene Kleiner, Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Kleiner was a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard executive. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Byers joined in 1977. [ 18 ] It was the very first venture capital firm to open an office on Sand Hill Road and is credited with creating the cluster of venture capital firms in that area.
Eugene Kleiner (1923–2003), Austrian-born venture capitalist who co-founded KPCB and is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley [117] Jerome Kohlberg Jr. (1925–2015), co-founder of KKR , founder of Kohlberg & Company [ 118 ]
In 1973, with Eugene Kleiner, he founded Kleiner Perkins, one of the first Sand Hill Road venture capital firms. Later, Frank J. Caufield and Brook Byers joined the firm, eventually becoming named partners. Perkins was a director at Applied Materials, Compaq, Corning Glass, Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, and Philips Electronics. [3]
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