Eugene Kleiner

Eugene Kleiner
Born(1923-05-12)May 12, 1923
DiedNovember 20, 2003(2003-11-20) (aged 80)
Alma materPolytechnic University of New York (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1948)
New York University (M.S., Industrial Engineering)
Occupation(s)Engineer, venture capitalist
Known forSemiconductor pioneer
Spouse
Rose Wassertheil
(m. 1947; died 2001)
ChildrenRobert
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.

  1. ^ "Eugene Kleiner, Early Promoter Of Silicon Valley, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times. Associated Press. November 26, 2003.