Kleiner Perkins
also referred to as: kleiner, perkins
6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2022 by Sebastian Mallaby · said 27 times in 12 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sebastian Mallaby (9), Tim Sullivan (4), Stan Miranda (3), Chris Douvos (3), Josh Wolfe (2), Steve Drobny (1), Paula Volent (1), Mitchell Green (1)
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2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Kleiner Perkins, oldest first
Apr 11, 2022 bearish
Kleiner Perkins collapsed because it relied on stars over institutional culture
“Where you have brilliant individuals, when those people go off the boil, or they retire, or whatever, the performance is going to collapse. And that's sort of what happened with Kleiner Perkins. They had two amazing investors, Vinod Kostler and John Doerr. Vin…”
Apr 11, 2022 positive
Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins pioneered hands-on venture investing in the 1970s
“And these two companies, Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, improvised two things in the 19 seventies. The first was this hands-on approach. Arthur Rock had been a financier by background. He had been important in things like devising equity stock options and devisi…”
Jan 27, 2025 neutral
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 negative
Sullivan: Power inverted as top VCs beg AI founders for 3% stakes
“When I started, if you were a smart guy in Silicon Valley, you crawled on your hands and knees up Sand Hill Road to Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins and begged them to invest. They'd invest Three million dollars and own 30% of your company. Now it's the other way ar…”