Opening with $8 million and later joined by Frank Caufield and Brook Byers as partners, the firm invested in tech companies over the next two decades, leading to theSilicon Valley boom that ushered in the Internet Age, writesBloomberg Technologys David Henry.
"He was there at the start of the biotech industry and the computer revolution. Tom was our partner and friend, andwe will miss him," Frank Caufield and Brook Byers, co-founders of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, said in a statement.