Stories tagged with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins invests in luxury plug-in hybrid maker
By John Decker | January 15, 2008 at 3:35pm | 0 
Fisker Kharma
If you want a sporty performance vehicle but are worried the poor gas mileage will give you bad kharma, Fisker Automotive may have just the answer.
On Monday the California start-up unveiled the Fisker Kharma, which they are billing as the first ever luxury four-door plug-in hybrid. It is being shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The stuff that Tom Perkins’ dreams are made of
By Ali Jones | December 16, 2007 at 9:46am | 2
It can be hard to measure the size of someone’s ego. But not that of venture capitalist Tom Perkins.
His ego measures precisely 289.1 feet long and is named the Maltese Falcon, a new class of super yacht.
Perkins co-founded in 1972 what is now Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the most successful VC firms in the world. At one point, Perkins was a director of 14 portfolio companies, three of which he chaired and which were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
