Kleiner Perkins Names Twitter's Michael Abbott Partner

In addition to his work at Twitter, Abbott as well led teams at Palm and Microsoft. Abbott, who joins the firm’s digital team, brings expertise in social, mobile and enterprise infrastructure and cloud computing.

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