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...Stanford, Wheelwright currently holds the Kleiner-Perkins, Caufield and Byers Professor of Management endowed chair at the B-School there...
...35th-floor corner office in Embarcadero Center on the sailboats plying San Francisco Bay. Taking in the view may be the only truly restful thing that Doerr, 34, normally ever does. He has been a relentless overachiever since he joined the blue-chip San Francisco venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. Three years later Doerr became one of five general partners (there are seven today). Among the companies that he has spotted for investment are Cypress Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems and Businessland, all Silicon Valley firms involved in various aspects of the computer field. Doerr's choices...
...professional life Perkins, 52, displays the same perfectionism toward a collection of-very new companies. As a founding partner of San Francisco's Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, he has since 1972 managed four venture-capital funds that have invested $80 million in 65 companies, including Genentech, a leader in genetic engineering, and Tandem Computers, a rising manufacturer of large mainframe machines. The original $200,000 that Perkins' firm put into Genentech is worth $60 million today, while its $1.5 million stake in Tandem has grown to $250 million. Like many venture capitalists, Perkins often helps run the companies...
...expertise of EIES and invite its entire community to recommend favorite pieces of software. Whole Earth staffers will then test the programs, weeding out items that are not first-rate. There will be few negative entries in the catalogue. Says Brand's editor at large, Art Kleiner: "Pans would have to be prime examples of some serious...
...finished book, some 200 pages with 600 recommendations, is scheduled to reach bookstores in late 1984. "There's been a lot of careless enthusiasm about software-it's such a fast-growing, hyped-up industry," says Kleiner. "We're hoping we can take the opposite approach." Stylistically the reviews will probably follow the patterns established by the original Whole Earth Catalog: short and pithy. Looking up from the Kaypro computer he uses for all of his writing, Brand gave an impromptu sample of the unadorned, telegraphic style that he favors: "Perfect Writer," he said, identifying the disc...