SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of a handful of professionals who alongside visionary entrepreneurs created these revolutionary companies that laid the foundation for the great success of Silicon Valley. In the process they ignited the industry known as venture capital.
Watch to see how Jimmy Treybig created Tandem and became one of the major companies fueling the success of Silicon valley.
“My first job after graduating with an EE degree from Rice was a job as a salesman for Texas Instruments and then I received an MBA from Stanford. Then I joined Hewlett Packard while their first computer was being designed.
I held the job of Marketing Manager of the Mt. View Div. and then Marketing Manager for Commercial Systems as HP grew from $0 to $ 300 million in Revenue. I loved HP, learned a huge amount, and was certainly impacted by Bill Hewlett and his people ideas, for which he was famous.”
“Tandem was a huge risk for Kleiner Perkins. If Tandem had failed there would have never been a second Kleiner Perkins fund”
Our success in a large part was due to the culture and focus on people including:
Since attending Rice University and receiving a BA and BSEE, Jimmy has continued to be very involved in mentorship and career building within the university. He was honored as a Distinguished Alumni in 1989.
Jimmy Treybig on Success
by Aruni Gunasegaram & Pam Losefsky, Rice Magazine, Fall 2006
