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Fortune
Allie Garfinkle

Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up

(Credit: Courtesy of Kleiner Perkins)

Independently and immediately, a flood of people reached the same conclusion: This had to be a mistake.

It was the summer of 2017, and as word spread that Mamoon Hamid was joining venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, some people wondered if it was a joke, or “fake news.” And they didn’t hold back. 

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