Eugene Kleiner

Austrian-American engineer and businessman (1923-2003)

Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Eugene Kleiner (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born May 12, 1923, died Nov 20, 2003.1

About

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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eugene Kleiner, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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