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Eugene Kleiner was born on 12 May, 1923 in Vienna, Austria, is an A 20th-century American engineers. Discover Eugene Kleiner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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Engineer, venture capitalist |
| Age |
80 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
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12 May 1923 |
| Birthday |
12 May |
| Birthplace |
Vienna, Austria |
| Date of death |
20 November, 2003 |
| Died Place |
Los Altos Hills, California |
| Nationality |
Austria
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He is a member of famous Engineer with the age 80 years old group.
Eugene Kleiner Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Eugene Kleiner's Wife?
His wife is Rose Wassertheil (m. 1947-2001)
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Rose Wassertheil (m. 1947-2001) |
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| Children |
Robert Lisa |
Eugene Kleiner Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Eugene Kleiner worth at the age of 80 years old? Eugene Kleiner’s income source is mostly from being a successful Engineer. He is from Austria. We have estimated Eugene Kleiner's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Engineer |
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Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist.
He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley.
He was one of the original founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, part of the Traitorous Eight, and Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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.
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.
In 1947, he married Rose Wassertheil (d. 2001), a Polish Jewish émigrée.
They had two children, Robert and Lisa.
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.
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.
He died on November 20, 2003, in Los Altos Hills, California.
