Eugene Kleiner | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 12, 1923 |
| Died | November 20, 2003 (aged 80) |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic University of New York (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1948) New York University (M.S., Industrial Engineering) |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, venture capitalist |
| Known for | Semiconductor pioneer |
| Spouse |
Rose Wassertheil
(m. 1947; died 2001) |
| Children | Robert Lisa |
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. 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.