| 词条 | Peter Fenton (venture capitalist) |
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| name = Peter Fenton | image = Peter Fenton Benchmark Capital.jpg | caption = Peter Fenton | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|July 1972}} | birth_place = | nationality = American | alma_mater = Stanford University | occupation = Venture Capitalist | employer = General Partner at Benchmark | known_for = | spouse = | website = }} Peter Fenton (born July 1972) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley. He is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm. Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at no. 94 in 2007,[1] then rising to no. 62 in 2008[2] and no. 50 in 2009.[3] Fenton was ranked no. 4 when Forbes resumed publishing its Midas List in 2011 and was described as the “most productive venture capitalist on our list.”[4] In 2012, Fenton was ranked no. 5 on the Forbes Midas List[5] and was no. 2 in 2015.[6] He has been a perennial member on the Midas List since 2007. Education and early careerFenton graduated with a BA in philosophy and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and an Arjay Miller Scholar, and spent seven years as a partner with Accel Partners. He was also an early employee at Virage[7] before joining Benchmark in 2006.[8] CareerBenchmarkFenton's investing style has been summarized as, “Wait until right before the company’s rising ‘adoption curve’ meets the declining ‘risk curve.’”[9] He served on the board of Twitter[9] and backed Twitter when it had only 25 employees.[4] He invested early in Yelp in 2006 and sits on its board.[9] Noted for his expertise in open source technology, Fenton has invested in JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), SpringSource (acquired by VMware) and Zimbra,[10] which was later acquired by VMware.[11] The VMware acquisition occurred on the same day that Facebook acquired FriendFeed, another company in Fenton’s portfolio.[9] He led Benchmark's investments in Wily Technology (acquired by CA Technologies), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!),[5] Minted,[12] Quip (acquired by Salesforce),[13] and Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo).[14] In addition to Twitter and Yelp, Fenton also serves on the boards of (in alphabetical order) Cockroach Labs, Docker (formerly DotCloud), Elasticsearch, Engine Yard, Hortonworks, Lithium Technologies, New Relic, Optimizely, Revinate, Zendesk, and Zuora.[7][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] In December 2014, Fenton "had one of the most unusual days in venture history" when two of his investments, Hortonworks and New Relic, went public the same day.[6] In February 2014, he was awarded the TechCrunch Crunchie for Venture Capitalist of the Year.[22] References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/99/biz_07midas_Peter-Fenton_ZR0N.html/|title=The Midas List 2007 |date=January 25, 2007 |publisher=Forbes|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} {{Twitter Navigation}}2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Peter-Fenton_ZR0N.html/|title=The Midas List 2008 |date=January 24, 2008 |publisher=Forbes|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/99/midas09_Peter-Fenton_1TXD.html/|title=The Midas List 2009 |date=January 29, 2009 |publisher=Forbes|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/midas/2011/profile/peter-fenton.html/|title=The Midas List 2011 |date=April 6, 2011 |publisher=Forbes|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|last=Geron|first=Tomio|title=The Midas List Tech's Top Investors|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/midas/2012/peter-fenton.html|accessdate=22 August 2012|newspaper=Forbes|date=2 May 2012}} 6. ^1 {{Cite web|title = Peter Fenton|url = https://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-fenton/?list=midas|accessdate = 2015-06-05}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|title=Peter Fenton|url=http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-fenton|work=CrunchBase|publisher=TechCrunch|accessdate=22 August 2012}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/99/midas09_Peter-Fenton_1TXD.html/|title=The Midas List |date=January 29, 2009 |publisher=Forbes|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 9. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Cutler|first=Kim-Mai|title=Benchmark's Peter Fenton nails both FriendFeed, SpringSource deals in one day|url=https://venturebeat.com/2009/08/10/benchmarks-peter-fenton-lands-both-friendfeed-springsource-deals-in-one-day/|accessdate=22 August 2012|newspaper=Venture Beat|date=10 August 2009}} 10. ^{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/08/11/peter-fenton-has-that-magic-open-source-touch/|title=Peter Fenton Has That Magic Open-Source Touch|date=August 11, 2009 |publisher=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/vmware-gently-nudges-microsoft-with-a-zimbra/|title=VMware Gently Nudges Microsoft with a Zimbra|date=January 13, 2010 |publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=May 12, 2011}} 12. ^{{cite web|title=Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/15/benchmark-marissa-mayer-put-5-5m-in-stationery-design-and-retail-site-minted/|publisher=TechCrunch}} 13. ^{{cite news|url=http://allthingsd.com/20130730/with-15m-from-benchmark-former-facebook-cto-bret-taylors-quip-aims-to-take-productivity-mobile/?refcat=news|title=With $15M From Benchmark, Former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s Quip Aims to Take Productivity Mobile|last=Gannes|first=Liz|date=30 July 2013|newspaper=All Things D|accessdate=5 September 2013}} 14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.recode.net/2015/8/3/11615308/yahoo-paid-around-200-million-for-polyvore-a-search-engine-for-fashion|title=Yahoo Paid Around $200 Million for Polyvore, a Search Engine for Fashion|work=Recode|access-date=2018-06-08}} 15. ^{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Alex|title=DotCloud Pivots And Wins Big With Docker, The Cloud Service Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/19/dotcloud-pivots-and-wins-big-with-docker-the-cloud-service-now-part-of-red-hat-openshift/|accessdate=7 January 2014|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=19 September 2013}} 16. ^{{cite news|last=Gannes|first=Liz|title=With $15M From Benchmark, Former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s Quip Aims to Take Productivity Mobile|url=http://allthingsd.com/20130730/with-15m-from-benchmark-former-facebook-cto-bret-taylors-quip-aims-to-take-productivity-mobile/|accessdate=7 January 2014|newspaper=All Things D|date=30 July 2013}} 17. ^{{cite news|last=Hoge|first=Patrick|title=Hospitality social monitor Revinate gets $14.5 million|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/07/revinate-takes-145-million-for.html|accessdate=7 January 2014|newspaper=San Francisco Business Times|date=25 July 2012}} 18. ^{{cite news|last=Rao|first=Leena|title=Big Data Search And Analytics Startup Elasticsearch Raises $10M From Benchmark|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/big-data-search-and-analytics-startup-elasticsearch-has-raises-10m-from-benchmark/|accessdate=9 November 2012|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=9 November 2012}} 19. ^{{cite web|last=Metz|first=Cade|title=How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/how-yahoo-spawned-hadoop/all/|work=Enterprise|publisher=Wired|accessdate=22 August 2012}} 20. ^{{Cite web|title = CockroachDB Scampers Off With $6.3 Million to Tackle Database Shortcomings|url = https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/04/cockroachdb-scampers-off-with-6-3-million-to-tackle-database-shortcomings/|website = WSJ Blogs - Digits|date = Jun 4, 2015|accessdate = 2015-06-05|first = Shira|last = Ovide}} 21. ^{{cite news|last=Levy|first=Ari|title=Twitter Backer Fenton Poised for IPO Barrage|url=http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2013-09-05-twitter-backer-fenton-poised-for-ipo-barrage/|accessdate=10 September 2013|newspaper=Bloomberg|date=5 September 2013}} 22. ^https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/peter-fenton-crunchies/ External links
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