Eugene Kleiner: From the Traitorous Eight to Kleiner Perkins and the Birth of Modern Venture Capital
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Eugene Kleiner: From the Traitorous Eight to Kleiner Perkins and the Birth of Modern Venture Capital

I was deep into researching Arthur Rock when I noticed something that kept nagging at me. Eugene Kleiner’s name appeared everywhere in those early chapters of Silicon Valley his...

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Jim Clark: The Man Who Funded Netscape and Built Three Billion-Dollar Companies

Jim Clark: The Man Who Funded Netscape and Built Three Billion-Dollar Companies

I kept running into Jim Clark’s name while researching the origins of Netscape and the early internet. Every account mentioned...

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Craig Newmark: How a Simple Email List Became Craigslist

Craig Newmark: How a Simple Email List Became Craigslist

I first used Craigslist in the mid-2000s to find an apartment, and even then it looked like a website from...

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Marc Andreessen: The 22-Year-Old Who Built the First Web Browser

Marc Andreessen: The 22-Year-Old Who Built the First Web Browser

I was researching the Netscape IPO when I realized that most people know the financial story — the stock that...

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Sabeer Bhatia Sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 Million — On His Birthday

Sabeer Bhatia Sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 Million — On His Birthday

I came across the Hotmail story while researching the mid-1990s startup boom, and one detail stopped me cold: Sabeer Bhatia...

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Pierre Omidyar Started eBay with a Broken Laser Pointer

Pierre Omidyar Started eBay with a Broken Laser Pointer

I have always been suspicious of startup origin stories that sound too neat. When I first heard that eBay was...

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Jerry Yang and David Filo Built Yahoo in a Stanford Trailer

Jerry Yang and David Filo Built Yahoo in a Stanford Trailer

I have always been drawn to origin stories where the founders had absolutely no intention of starting a company. When...

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Stop Calling Every Startup Story a Garage Story

Stop Calling Every Startup Story a Garage Story

Somebody needs to say this: the garage is a myth. Not because HP didn’t literally start in a garage —...

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The Company That Bought Zip2 — And Then Disappeared: The Rise and Fall of Compaq

The Company That Bought Zip2 — And Then Disappeared: The Rise and Fall of Compaq

I was at a weekend market last Saturday and a guy was selling old Compaq laptops as vintage collectibles. I...

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