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Why did Gordon decide to leave Electronic Arts for Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers?

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Why did Gordon decide to leave Electronic Arts for Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers?

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Three reasons. First, he’s comfortable with the partners at Kleiner Perkins. “I’ve known the leading partners at Kleiner since John Doerr and Brook Byers made a founding investment in Electronic Arts in ’82,” Gordon told us. “Then Brook went on the board, and Brook was kind of the cool guy on the board; deeply believes in entertainment and entrepreneurial possibilities. So he shaped my thinking about what a board member can be.