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...More attention has focused on the entrepreneurs who remade the world with technology, such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, than those who backed them....
...After his own success in building the computer hardware and chip group Sun Microsystems in the 1980s, followed by 18 years at VC firm Kleiner Perkins, he became one of the earliest backers of the first wave...
...Chinese solar company Hanergy bought the promising solar start-up MiaSolé, which had been backed by Kleiner Perkins, in 2013....
...Jeff Gennette, Macy’s chief executive, said business was likely to recover only “gradually”. The group said it had about 190 outlets open and expected another 80 to be up and running this weekend....
...Also out on Tuesday are updates from FTSE 100 group Ashtead and FTSE 250 company Travis Perkins....
...The peerless Kenneth Cranham, an actor who can drip menace like olive oil from a press, plays the mastermind, Brian Reader, with Timothy Spall as his resentful underling, Terry Perkins....
...For instance, in January, Kleiner Perkins — one of the longest-running companies in Silicon Valley — announced a $600m early-stage fund....
...This time, as they battle to save their Arcadia group, owner of Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, Tina’s been splurging again. This time, though, she’s channelled her spending for a good cause....
...It had signalled its determination to prosecute Mr Assange in 2017 when Jeff Sessions, then attorney-general, said his capture was a “priority”....
...Along with other big names in US retail, the department store chain’s chairman and chief executive Jeff Gennette had predicted a bumper festive shopping season....
...#Amazon — Bezos on big fails Jeff Bezos' annual letter to shareholders is out, and he talks about the ill-received Fire phone, and Echo and Alexa, as he contrasts success and failure: “If the size of your...
...Centrica slumped after the British Gas owner’s interim earnings missed expectations and Jeff Bell, chief finance officer, unexpectedly announced he was stepping down in October....
...Launched in 2015 by Amol Deshpande, a former partner at Silicon Valley venture capital group Kleiner Perkins who also worked at agricultural trader Cargill, and ex-Google programme manager Charles Baron,...
...(It is not known whether Juicero has pitched Amazon, which just closed its acquisition of Whole Foods, directly on a deal or if it is just hoping Jeff Bezos will read its blogpost.)...
...Backers like August Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Shasta Ventures have poured $110 million into the company....
...vows Grace (Susannah Perkins) after being raped by Jeff (Doug Harris), a gormless jock who bounces through life chanting “I am good at football”....
...The relatively few successes for venture-backed companies in the market has put many early-stage investors off, says Jeff Clavier, a partner at SoftTech VC....
...The company raised $64m in a funding round, with contributions from existing investors including Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates and GSV Capital....
...On the 20-year anniversary of the Amazon listing, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins recalls how nervous Quattrone was about raising the pricing range for the online bookseller, whose shares in the intervening...
...“Enforcement priorities change,” said Barak Cohen, a former US prosecutor who is now at Perkins Coie, a law firm....
...Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, the Southern-based director of Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, Midnight Special is, on the surface, an effects-laden sci-fi chase movie but at its heart a very...
...Amazon’s Jeff Bezos grinned widely from the window of a traditional Indian truck during a visit to Bangalore last week, flashing a mocked-up $2bn cheque from the window – the sum the US online retailer plans...
...Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and Google Ventures, the internet company’s venture capital arm, are also backers....
...Latecomers included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which bought into the messaging company in 2010....
...I was reminded of it by the recent coverage of Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of The Washington Post. Mr Bezos is a fine example of what Mr Doerr means by missionary....
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