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#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors

Grit

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I Invested in Compact Computers, and It Was the First Sunami, the First of Three Waves

Kleiner was raising what was ventur capital's first flagship fund, which was unheard of. Steve jobbs invented the personal computer but then i b m really popularized it with intel micro processer. Some executives from t i wanted to make hard dis drives for personal computers - they didn't like that idea very much. They also had an idea to make a lugable version of the i b m pc, a sewing machine, like 35 pound, nine inch screen personal computer. And so to this day, compact computer, which rosen deserves credit for sponsoring, and i invested alongside of had a hundred and 17 million dollars of revenues. That's a record of first year revenues for

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