The Kleiner Mafia: Meet the Silicon Valley investors who did their tours of duty at the once untouchable VC firm

Khosla joined Kleiner Perkins as a general partner in 1986 after cofounding Sun Microsystems, a company that developed computer hardware. His experience in hardware paid off through the firm's successful investments in Cerent and Juniper Networks, according to Fortune.

Khosla left Kleiner Perkins in 2004 to start Khosla Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that focused on emerging industries like biotechnology and clean energy. Khosla's firm has invested in genomic testing startup Color Genomics, sustainable fashion brand Everlane, food delivery platform DoorDash, and payments platform Square, among others.

Vassallo joined Kleiner Perkins in 2002 and worked on the firm's energy efficiency portfolio. According to Fortune, the former IDEO product engineer used her design background to help land one of Kleiner Perkins's most successful investments in Nest, which was sold to Google for $3.2 billion.

Vassallo left Kleiner Perkins in 2014 to start Defy Partners with Neil Sequeira. On April 10, the firm announced its second fund with $262 million committed to invest in early-stage companies.

According to Fortune, Anderson joined Kleiner Perkins in 1999 after graduating from Stanford Business School. He reportedly helped out on the firm's blockbuster Google investment in June of that year.

Anderson jumped back into the corporate world at Microsoft after leaving Kleiner Perkins in 2004, but left to start his own early-stage investment firm Baseline Ventures shortly after. Baseline gained recognition for its early investment in Instagram, which was bought by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012.

Lee brought her background in consumer technology to Kleiner Perkins's portfolio and led investments in Rent the Runway, One Kings Lane, and Shopkick.

She left Kleiner Perkins in 2012 to start Cowboy Ventures for early stage investing for consumer technology companies. She also famously coined the term "unicorn" in 2013 to refer to private companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more.