# Eugene Kleiner Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist, one of the [[wiki/Traitorous Eight|Traitorous Eight]] who left [[wiki/Shockley Semiconductor|Shockley Semiconductor]] to co-found [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]] (1957). Later co-founded [[wiki/Kleiner Perkins|Kleiner Perkins]] (1972), extending the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] genealogy into venture capital. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].