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POINT O MATTER
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The Point That Matters
Our success will create your success

Unique:
  • Developed the Keiretsu model: clients are plugged into their network of companies
• John Doerr, a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins, was ranked second on Forbes Midas List for 2006 and first for 2005
• Expanded partners in the firm to include ‘non-traditional’ members such as Colin Powell and Al Gore
Metric:
  • Since its founding in 1972, has backed entrepreneurs in over 600 ventures
• KPCB portfolio companies employ more than 250,000 people
• More than 150 of their portfolio companies have gone public, including Google, Amazon, AOL, Netscape and Sun Microsystems

Debate:
 
What's more important, connections or valuations?

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The Point-O-Matter Meter shows how we map the strategies of various companies to ZOOM's philosophy. Click a company name at left to see what we think. Information here is based solely on ZOOM's view of the company in question, and is presented for the purposes of illustrating our approach. The companies listed are not necessarily ZOOM clients.
 
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