Eugene Kleiner
| Eugene Kleiner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 12, 1923 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | November 20, 2003 (aged 80) Los Altos Hills, California |
| Alma mater |
Polytechnic University of New York (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1948) New York University (M.S., Industrial Engineering) |
| Occupation | Engineer, venture capitalist |
| Known for | Semiconductor pioneer |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Wassertheil (m. 1947; d. 2001) |
| Children | Robert Lisa |
Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-born American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered the pioneer of Silicon Valley.
He was one of the original founders of 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.
He was born on 12 May 1923 in Vienna, Austria.
In 1938, he fled Nazi persecution of Jews 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 Corporation.
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