Keep pulling the thread on Mamoon Hamid.
Kleiner Perkins led the Series A funding rounds for Xilinx, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Google, and Amazon.
Mamoon Hamid believes the current AI trend is a "once-in-a-lifetime revolution" comparable to the Industrial Revolution, not just the internet.
Mamoon Hamid believes that frontier AI models provide "units of labor" that can address the trillions of dollars in the global white-collar labor market.
Kleiner Perkins passed on investing in Anthropic's Series B round after meeting the founders over Zoom.
Kleiner Perkins' AI investment strategy targeted the top of the "labor pyramid" by investing in companies serving engineers (WindSurf), doctors (Ambience, Open Evidence), and lawyers (Harvey).
In the current AI market, some startups with two founders are raising $100 million at a $1 billion valuation at the Series A stage.
NVIDIA controls 95% of all spending on GPUs.
An estimated 90% of the revenue in the AI foundation model market is concentrated in two companies: OpenAI and Anthropic.
Mamoon Hamid was an early investor in Slack, Figma, Glean, and Box.
Mamoon Hamid co-founded Social Capital with Chamath Palihapitiya.
At the time of US Venture Partners' investment, Box had a few hundred thousand dollars in revenue.
Microsoft acquired the enterprise social network Yammer in 2012.