Kleiner Perkins

“John Doerr was pretty widely known to be the greatest of all time at this point in history.”

“The Series A that would happen shortly thereafter of Google famously split between John Dora Kleiner and Mike Moritz at Sequoia was at a hundred million dollar post-money valuation, which was insane for the Point in time.”

“Amazon ends up. Choosing Kleiner to lead their Series A, eight million dollars at a sixty million dollar post money valuation.”

“But could they have beaten one of those two firms to get one of the two primary VC slots in Google? Almost assuredly. I mean, at this point, this was Bench where they had just done eBay. You know, they were at the height of their powers. They were the internet…”

“I mean, he was alone the 800 pound gorilla in the VC ecosystem in the early 19 nineties and specifically leading up to and during the internet era.”

“A core part of this Caretzi model at Kleiner was, we helped facilitate, and some would argue they would do more than help facilitate, they would force these partnerships, biz dev relationships, Upon their portfolio companies.”

“He aggressively came in to try and court the deal, win the deal, and then he would try and pass off the board seat to a junior partner. And Jeff, of course, didn't let that happen, but many entrepreneurs did.”

“So David ends up doing the CEO searches for Netscape. He brings in Jim Barksdale, which of course is a Kleiner company and a John Doar company. He does the same for Excite.”

“Famously, Kleiner and Sequoia end up splitting the deal, and Michael Moritz and John Doerr, the two most legendary VCs in the world, they team up, they join forces, they split the deal, and they both join the board of Google at the Series A.”

“They just... Paid a hundred million dollar post for a Series A company with no revenue.”