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"We were investing serious amounts of money," MIT Associate Provost Frank E. Perkins said last month," and others were deriving much benefit."
In his 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...
An M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer with a Master's in business from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy...
Perkins lives with his wife and two children in a spacious 1920s-vintage house overlooking San Francisco Bay. Most weekends he putters in his garage or enters one of his roadsters in a classic-car show. He may risk his capital on the newest computer technology, but he invests his...
When the San Francisco Giants play in windy Candlestick Park, a man with owlish spectacles, tight lips, an aquiline nose and a stern gaze usually sits in a front-row seat, 70 ft. from home plate. Arthur Rock, 57, has been a Giants fan for 25 years, watching batters try...