Thomas J. Perkins
Thomas J. Perkins is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1972. He is best known for helping pioneer the venture capital industry and for funding landmark technology and biotechnology companies including Genentech, Compaq, Amazon, and Google. Perkins served as a director or chairman at numerous major companies and was an early activist investor who took hands-on management roles in the firms he backed. He died on June 7, 2016, at the age of 84.
“Ron Conway, Brooke Byers, Tom Perkins — Referenced as earlier-generation investors who modeled a sense of obligation to the tech industry beyond firm returns.”
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