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VentureBeat: Kleiner Perkins hiring to invest in consumer Internet

  • Jared · 2 years ago
    Technologies include "CSS, XHTML"... doesn't that include every web company ever?
  • Steve · 2 years ago
    Kleiner is wholly irrelevant in the consumer Internet sector. No decent entrepreneur would consider pitching them for a consumer web business.
  • Valley Grunt · 2 years ago
    Hmm. Steve's comment above left me a wee bit bemused:- While KPCB hasn't had any consumer web hits lately, I dare say they are still one of the top-three marquee names in the venture community. Netscape, Amazon, Google were as consumer-webby as you can get...
  • Jason · 2 years ago
    I've got to disagree with Steve. KP funded the companies that basically created the consumer Internet as we know it today -- Netscape, Amazon, Google. Not to mention the infrastructure that powers big chunks of the Internet -- Sun Microsystems & Juniper Networks. Just because they've been quiet on investing in Web 2.0 "feature companies" doesn't mean that they're not ready to help build the next great Internet company.
  • David Gong · 2 years ago
    I second Jason's comment. Per my experience, KP follows a rigorous value chain impact maximization (lack of better words) valuating process to invest in companies. Anyone could miss some opportunities. But if a Web2.0 company's fundamental business model were so strikingly disruptive and scalable, KP would probably have "hunt" it done. Lately I heard one of the hottest money making venture businesses in China is to farm potatoes. When you have billion people hungry for French Fries, you bet someone will take a second look at earth moving farmers with serious many 1s and 0s in mind.
  • courtney benson · 2 years ago
    As others have stated KPs funded some of best and in my opinion will continue to do so. Their expertise is in hiring top talent that sees both the forest and the trees. Note: there's something to be said for experience.