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Kleiner Perkins company history timeline

1965

He began his career at Hewlett-Packard Co., eventually being picked to lead its new computer division in 1965.

1972

1972: Thomas Perkins and Eugene Kleiner start first fund for their venture capital firm.

1978

The second fund, set up in 1978 with $15 million, would grow at a compound rate of 99.3 percent in its first five years.

1982

1982: Morgan Stanley & Co. joins Kleiner Perkins in creating a record-setting $150 million fund.

1993

KPCB started a "CEO-in-residence" program in 1993 with William Campbell, formerly head of Go, which had just been sold off to AT&T. He was later picked to lead Intuit, the maker of Quicken accounting software.

1996

KPCB had added an office in Palo Alto, California, a couple of years earlier, and in 1996 moved to a ski lodge-styled building on Sand Hill Road in the pricey San Jose suburb of Menlo Park.

2002

In 2002, KPCB reduced the size of its tenth fund from $627.5 million to about $471 million.

In 2002, Kleiner Perkins was named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit related to the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO)/ImClone affair.

2010

In 2010, Kleiner Perkins launched its first growth fund and made a number of later-stage investments in a new generation of tech companies.

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