Jul 21, 2014
Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011, focusing on helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. He is an expert on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and “big data.”
An engineer, investor and entrepreneur, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm and Microsoft. Formerly the vice president of engineering at Twitter, Mike led the team to rebuild and solidify Twitter’s infrastructure, growing the engineering team from 80 to more than 350 engineers in less than a year and a half, and scaling Twitter’s architecture to support 250 million daily tweets.
In this talk, Mike discusses his early life experiences with meeting Steve Jobs and how that inspired his career, as well as choosing the right investors for your business.