Eugene Kleiner (May 12, 1923 – 20 November 2003) was one of the original founders of Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Harry Balls Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. Like many large cities, San Joses downtown is expansive and encompasses much more area than shown in this view. ... Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ...

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. Amazon. ... America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider and Internet service provider that is owned by Time Warner. ... Brio Technology was a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1984 by Yorgen Edholm and Katherine Glassey. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Flextronics International Ltd. ... Genentech, Inc. ... Google, Inc. ... Look up Intuit on Wiktionary, the free dictionary To intuit has the definition to know or grasp by intuition or feeling. Intuit, Inc. ... Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... This article reads like an advertisement. ... Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) is a graphics and web development software house. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... The word quantum, pl. ... Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the Segway HT at the U.S. Department of Commerce on February 14, 2002. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Tandem is a group of similar units arranged one behind the other and working together. ...

In 1938, being Jewish, he fled with his family from Vienna, Austria, arriving in New York two years later. He served in the U.S. Army, then earned a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York in 1948 and a Master's degree in industrial engineering from New York University. After briefly teaching engineering, he joined Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T.-1... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three or four years. ... The Ford Essex V6 engine Mechanical engineering is a very broad field of engineering that involves the application of physical principles for analysis, design, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems. ... Livingston Street building (circa 1930) Polytechnic University (Poly), located in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, is the United States second oldest private technology university, having been founded in 1854. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Industrial engineering is the engineering discipline that concerns the design, development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was a US electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995 . ... AT&T Inc. ...

In 1947, he married the former Rose Wassertheil (d. 2001), a Polish emigré. They had two children, Robert and Lisa. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In 1956, he was among the first to accept an offer from William Shockley to come to California to help form what became Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. In 1957, he and seven colleagues (the "Fairchild Eight", whom Shockley dubbed the "Traitorous Eight") left to found Fairchild Semiconductor, which most historians mark as the first major spin-off of what later was called Silicon Valley. According to fellow VC Arthur Rock, Kleiner led the Eight, obtaining a $1.5 million investment from Sherman Fairchild and taking over the new firm's administrative duties. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) American physicist, eugenicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. ... State nickname: The Golden State Official languages English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 4. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The traitorous eight are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. ... Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit (although at almost the same time as one from Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. ... Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American entrepreneur and technology visionary who set the standard of industrial and technical excellence throughout much of the 20th century. ...

Kleiner later invested his own money in Intel, a semiconductor firm founded in 1968 by fellow Fairchild founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Robert Noyce Robert Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. ... Gordon Moore This article is about the co-founder of Intel and coiner of what became Moores law. ...

In 1972 he joined Hewlett-Packard veteran Tom Perkins to found Kleiner Perkins, the venture capital firm now headquartered on Sand Hill Road. In 1977, the company added Brook Byers and Frank Caulfield as named partners. He retired from day-to-day responsibilities in the early 1980s. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Thomas James Perkins (Born 1932), American businessman, capitalist, and investment banker, was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. ... The Sand Hill Road freeway exit. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Brook Byers is the brother of Tom Byers, and is a professor at Stanford. ...