Eric Feng

From Texas,[4] Feng earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin[5] in 1999,[1] and received the IEC Everitt Award[5][1] as the top graduating engineering student.[4]

He started his professional career at Trilogy Software,[4] where he cofounded Uberworks.com,[1] which was later acquired by a publicly traded Network Commerce in 2000.[6] He went on to hold leadership positions at Microsoft Research,[1] working with the Microsoft China research lab in Beijing[4] as a program manager.[7] In Beijing he co-founded[4] and served as CEO[1] of the online video platform startup called Mojiti,[4] which was acquired by Hulu in 2007.[8] As part of the acquisition, Feng joined Hulu[8][4] as the founding CTO[1] and head of product.[5]

In 2010, Feng joined Kleiner Perkins[9][8] and focused on sustainability[1][5][3] and digital media investments,[10] also becoming chief of staff to Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore.[1][5] Between 2011[10] and 2015,[7] Feng incubated and worked at Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies Erly,[10][5][11] Airtime Media,[11][12] and Flipboard,[12][7] before rejoining Kleiner Perkins in 2015[3][13] as a general partner focused on early-stage consumer investing.[1] By 2016 he had led an investment into Handshake, a career network for college students,[13] and was involved in the funding of the dollar store goods e-commerce store Hollar.[14] He also recently incubated the video e-commerce mobile platform Packagd.[15][16] He left Kleiner Perkins in 2018.[2]

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