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Eric Feng is an American software engineer, business executive, and financier. He is a former general partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, where he focused on leading early stage consumer investments before leaving in 2018. Previously he was CTO of Kleiner Perkins portfolio company
Flipboard Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Beijing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates cont ...
, along with other companies.


Early life and education

From
Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
, Feng earned his B.S. degree in
electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
from the
University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
in 1999, and received the IEC Everitt Award as the top graduating engineering student.


Career

He started his professional career at Trilogy Software, where he cofounded Uberworks.com, which was later acquired by a publicly traded Network Commerce in 2000. He went on to hold leadership positions at
Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...
, working with the Microsoft China research lab in Beijing as a program manager. In Beijing he co-founded and served as CEO of the online video platform startup called Mojiti, which was acquired by
Hulu Hulu (, ) is an American Subscription business model, subscription streaming media service owned by Disney Streaming, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company. It was launched on October 29, 2007, initially as ...
in 2007. As part of the acquisition, Feng joined Hulu as the founding CTO and head of product. In 2010, Feng joined
Kleiner Perkins Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneur ...
and focused on sustainability and digital media investments, also becoming
chief of staff The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supportin ...
to Kleiner Perkins partner
Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as ...
. Between 2011 and 2015, Feng incubated and worked at Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies Erly, Airtime Media, and
Flipboard Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Beijing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates cont ...
, before rejoining Kleiner Perkins in 2015 as a general partner focused on early-stage consumer investing. By 2016 he had led an investment into Handshake, a career network for college students, and was involved in the funding of the dollar store goods e-commerce stores Hollar and BorderX Lab. He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd. He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018.


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