Valley Boy - The Education of Tom Perkins

In 1957 Perkins started working for Hewlett-Packard, and his career with the company spanned across marketing, working for the research laboratories, and becoming the first hard-driving general manager of its skyrocketing computer businesses. He was a pioneer in laser technology, starting on a shoestring a profitable company that he later merged into Spectra-Physics. As chairman of Genentech for fourteen years. Founder of the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and director of Applied Materials, Compaq, Corning Glass, Philips Electronics, and NewsCorp, plus many others, Perkins never shies away from the cutting edge...