Perkins, Thomas J. oral history
Thomas J. Perkins co-founded the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) with Eugene Kleiner in 1973 after a decade-long career at Hewlett-Packard. Together with his KPCB partners, Perkins led one of the most successful long-term venture investing strategies in the history of Silicon Valley. Two of the earliest venture investments that Perkins led—Tandem Computers and Genentech—went on to be game-changing developers of technology in the earliest days of system and high-performance computing. A number of oral histories of Perkins are available on the Internet, including a long interview done by the University of California at Berkeley. This three-hour oral history conducted in 2011 focuses on Perkins’ upbringing, education, mentors, early professional experience at Hewlett-Packard and transition to venture investing. It also covers his investment philosophy and a number of personal stories of entrepreneurs with whom he had particularly close business relationships.
Item Details
- Date
- 2011-07-22 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102714336
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Thomas J. Perkins (Interviewee)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
John C. Hollar (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Gift of Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 23 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/San Francisco
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6219.2012
- Subject
- Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner Perkins, Venture Capital, Tandem Computer, HP
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection