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...Homegrocer.com was founded only last year, and is funded with money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the same venture capital firm that helped launch big Internet brands such as Amazon, Excite and At Home. Last month former Netscape chief executive James Barksdale invested some $5 million in the privately held online grocery company. MORE...
...price. For example, much of the volatility of Amazon.com comes from the fact that less than half of the company's 49 million shares are actively traded. Founder Jeff Bezos controls 41%, and an additional 12% is in the hands of the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers...
...Stanford, Wheelwright currently holds the Kleiner-Perkins, Caufield and Byers Professor of Management endowed chair at the B-School there...
...corner office in Embarcadero Center on the sailboats plying San Francisco Bay. Taking in the view may be the only truly restful thing that Doerr, 34, normally ever does. He has been a relentless overachiever since he joined the blue-chip San Francisco venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. Three years later Doerr became one of five general partners (there are seven today). Among the companies that he has spotted for investment are Cypress Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems and Businessland, all Silicon Valley firms involved in various aspects of the computer field. Doerr's choices have earned...
...Phony," that most perfect word of Holden Caufield's vocabulary. That most concise sense of Salinger's classic work. And yet phoniness, like its sibling rival, sincerity, does not find expression in some sterile post-production studio...