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Michael Abbott

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Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011. He focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike serves as an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and “big data.” He also helps entrepreneurs win the race for talent in a hyper-competitive recruitment environment.

An engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm and Microsoft before he joined KPCB. Mike is also an expert in “big data” businesses, having founded Composite Software. 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. Before joining Twitter, Mike led the software development team at Palm that created HP/Palm’s next-generation webOS platform. Earlier in his career, Mike was the general manager at Microsoft for .NET online services, which became Azure. He was also co-founder of Passenger Inc. Mike has advised and invested in numerous software companies throughout his career, including Cloudera, Hearsay Labs, Jawbone and Saynow.

Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

Recent Milestones

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  Michael Abbott added a position as Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/3/11 at 8:15pm
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  Michael Abbott invested in Locu. (9/7/11)
  Posted 9/7/11 at 7:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Board of Directors at Saba. (7/18/11)
  Posted 7/22/11 at 1:38pm
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  Michael Abbott invested in Hearsay Social. (2/3/11)
  Posted 9/19/11 at 8:14pm via allthingsd.com
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at Rock Health. (1/1/11)
  Posted 4/24/13 at 5:33am
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  Michael Abbott added a position as VP of Engineering at Twitter. (4/1/10)
  Posted 4/19/10 at 5:43pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at Mobclix.
  Posted 9/28/10 at 6:45pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Board of Directors at Gumroad.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at Jawbone.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at Cloudera.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Investor at Hearsay Social.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Board of Directors at InMobi.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at SayNow.
  Posted 8/28/10 at 10:05am
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Advisor at Rock Health.
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:35pm
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  Michael Abbott added a position as General Manager at Microsoft.
  Posted 5/27/09 at 9:28am
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  Michael Abbott added a position as Senior VP, Application Software and Services at Palm.
  Posted 5/27/09 at 9:26am

Investments

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1. Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media (allthingsd.com) [edit]