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Benchmark Part I

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The 800 Pound Gorilla Kleiner Perkins

John door was alone the 800 pound gorilla in the early 1990s and specifically Leading up to and during the internet era. He did not start his own firm he started his career at Intel working for Andy Grove before joining Kleiner Perkins. If you were an ambitious young venture capitalist in the 1990s in Silicon Valley, you needed a damn good answer about how you were gonna beat John door.

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