利用者:加藤勝憲/ユージーン・クライナー
Eugene Kleiner | |
|---|---|
| 生誕 |
1923年5月12日 Vienna, Austria |
| 死没 |
2003年11月20日（80歳没） Los Altos Hills, California |
| 出身校 |
Polytechnic University of New York (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1948) New York University (M.S., Industrial Engineering) |
| 職業 | Engineer, venture capitalist |
| 著名な実績 | Semiconductor pioneer |
| 配偶者 |
Rose Wassertheil （結婚 1947年、死別 2001年） |
| 子供 |
Robert Lisa |
ユージーン・クライナー（Eugene Kleiner、1923年5月12日 - 2003年11月20日）はオーストリア系米国人の技術者、ベンチャーキャピタリスト。シリコンバレーのパイオニアと言われている[1]。
シリコンバレーのベンチャーキャピタル、クライナー・パーキンス（後のクライナー・パーキンス・コーフィールド＆バイヤーズ）の創業者の一人であった。
同社は、Amazon.com、AOL、Brio Technology、Electronic Arts、Flextronics、Genentech、Google、Hybritech、Intuit、Lotus Development、LSI Logic、Macromedia、Netscape、Quantum、Segway、Sun MicrosystemsおよびTandem Computersなど300以上の情報技術およびバイオテクノロジー企業に初期投資を行っている。
The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon.com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, Sun Microsystems and Tandem Computers.
生い立ちと教育
[編集]クライナーは1923年5月12日、オーストリアのウィーンで生まれた[2][3]。1938年、ナチスによるユダヤ人迫害[4]を家族とともに逃れ、2年後にニューヨークに到着した。アメリカ陸軍に従軍し、1948年にニューヨーク工科大学で機械工学の学士号を、ニューヨーク大学で工業工学の修士号を取得した。
Kleiner was born on May 12, 1923, in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, he fled Nazi persecution of Jews with his family, arriving in New York two years later. He served in the U.S. Army, then earned a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York in 1948 and a Master's degree in industrial engineering from New York University.
経歴
[編集]After briefly teaching engineering, he joined Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T Corporation.
In 1956, he was among the first to accept an offer from William Shockley to come to California to help form what became Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. In 1957, he and seven colleagues (the "Fairchild eight", whom Shockley dubbed the "traitorous eight") left the laboratory to found Fairchild Semiconductor, which most historians mark as the first major spin-off of what later was called Silicon Valley. According to fellow venture capitalist Arthur Rock, Kleiner led the eight, obtaining a $1.5 million investment from Sherman Fairchild and taking over the new firm's administrative duties.
Kleiner later invested his own money in Intel, a semiconductor firm founded in 1968 by fellow Fairchild founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
In 1972, he joined Hewlett-Packard veteran Tom Perkins to found Kleiner Perkins, the venture capital firm now headquartered on Sand Hill Road. In 1977, the company added Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield as named partners. He retired from day-to-day responsibilities in the early 1980s.
Personal life
[編集]In 1947, he married Rose Wassertheil (d. 2001), a Polish Jewish émigrée.[4] They had two children, Robert and Lisa.[要出典] He died on November 20, 2003, in Los Altos Hills, California.[5]
Kleiner's laws
[編集]- Make sure the dog wants to eat the dog food. No matter how ground-breaking a new technology, how large a potential market, make certain customers actually want it.[6]
- Build one business at a time. Most business plans are overly ambitious. Concentrate on being successful in one endeavor first.[6]
- Risk up front, out early.
- The time to take the tarts is when they're being passed.[6]
- The problem with most companies is they don't know what business they're in.[6]
- Even turkeys can fly in a high wind. In times of strong economies, even bad companies can look good.[6]
- It's easier to get a piece of an existing market than to create a new one.[6]
- It's difficult to see the picture when you're inside the frame.[6]
- After learning some of the tricks of the trade, some people think they know the trade.[6]
- Venture capitalists will stop at nothing to copy success.[6]
- Invest in people, not just products.[6]
- When the money is available, take it.[要出典]
- There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.
- The more difficult the decision, the less it matters what you choose.[要出典]
Notes and references
[編集]- ^ “Eugene Kleiner, Early Promoter Of Silicon Valley, Is Dead at 80”. Associated Press. (November 26, 2003)
- ^ Reed, Christopher (2003年12月17日). “Obituary: Eugene Kleiner” (英語). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 2020年6月25日閲覧。
- ^ TODAY. “Strategies: This advice for entrepreneurs is timeless” (英語). USA TODAY. 2020年6月25日閲覧。
- ^ a b Meyer (February 2006). “Giants Kleiner”. Polytechnic University. 2016年3月4日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2014年1月26日閲覧。
- ^ “Eugene Kleiner”. The New York Times. (25 November 2003) 2014年12月7日閲覧. "Died November 20, 2003 in Los Altos Hills, California, at the age of 80. - See more"
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j www.kpcb.com. “Eugene Kleiner — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers”. www.kpcb.com. 2017年3月2日閲覧。
External links
[編集]- The Fairchild Chronicles Archived 2012-10-15 at the Wayback Machine.
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