After working at Disney, Proctor and Gamble, being CEO of eBay, running for Governor of California and losing, Fortune is reporting that Meg Whitman will now be joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a part-time strategic advisor.
Whitman joins other politicos Al Gore and Colin Powell in the role, where she will “scope investments and coach startups” at what is prehaps Silicon Valley’s most famous Venture Capital firm. Kleiner Perkins recently invested in Twitter, Spotify and Groupon, to throw out a few winners.
In more of a logical step towards non-VC star power, Kleiner Perkins brought Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker on as a partner in November.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm, due in large part to their past success. They were early investors in many significant companies, including Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems. The name of the firm comes from the four founding partners: Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers. In March 2008, KPCB announced the iFund, a $100M investment initiative focused on ideas...
Meg Whitman edit Meg Whitman, is the former CEO and Board Chairman of eBay. She resigned in March of 2008. In September of 2009, she announced her official candidacy for governor of California. On September 22nd, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that she has been hired to by the Board of Directors to become CEO and President of the global PC maker. Leading eBay from 1998 to 2008, Meg helped the company grow from 30 employees and a little over $4 million in...
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